Daydreaming.

Amanda Hunt, NBC5 Street Team
Memorial Weekend is over and your mind is still on vacation. You’re typing 60 words per minute while saying to yourself, “I really could have used two more days.” Trust me, you’re not alone! I propose we go away together. You know, fantasize the perfect rendezvous [...]

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Brian Williams Visits Chicago

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team (video)
It’s a pretty big day here in the NBC5 newsroom. Brian Williams, the anchor of the NBC Nightly News, is in Chicago today and will be anchoring the newscast from the Shedd Aquarium (5:30 p.m., NBC5).
It always amazes me to see the amount of work that goes into a [...]

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Ancient Americas Festival Days

Danielle Barrera, NBC5 Street Team (video)
Ancient Americas is a permanent exhibition that opened March 9th at The Field Museum. This exhibit gives you the opportunity to take a look at life in America before the Europeans arrived. You are given the chance to walk through an 800-year-old pueblo replica, learn about [...]

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Slap Happy

Shlomi Rabi, NBC5 Street Team (Video)
“So”, Carl said, “when we got there we were already pretty drunk.” He was telling us about his excursion to Saugatuck (aka Homoville, Michigay) with his partner Jeff. “The club wasn’t even that full so the strippers were pretty desperate. This one zebra-thong-wearing stripper, who was obviously straight, [...]

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Irish Fest 2007 Is Here

Erik Sorensen (Video)
If you live on Chicago’s South Side, the only question easier than “Who won the 2005 World Series?” is “What are you doing Memorial Day Weekend?”. That’s because from May 25th – May 28th, Gaelic Fest will take place in Chicago’s Gaelic Park.
The fest has been a South Side tradition for years, [...]

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The Doctor Is In… All The Way From The UK

Irit Silverman NBC5 Street Team (Video)
Millenium Park was jumping with jive, rhythym and blues as the Dr. Teeth Big Band played today. And this was only the beginning. The London based band was in town kicking off their 2007 U.S. tour.
Clad in very Beatle-esque dark suits, the eight piece band [...]

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2 Hours In 3 Inch Heels…To Meet Mayor Daley

Blagica Stefanovski, NBC5 Street Team (Video)Inauguration Day, May 21st, 2007…I was excited to hold a simple invitation from the Office of the Mayor. It read something to the effect of: “Mayor Daley invites you to an Open House on Inauguration Day. 2-3:30 pm. ” For about a week, I was imagining a somewhat intimate [...]

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Rapper Ludacris Hosts A Perfect Evening Of KARMA

Art “Chat Daddy” Sims, NBC5 Street Team
Last Wednesday evening many Chicagoans, celebrities and everyday people came out in full force to an evening of KARMA at the 4th Annual Ludacris Foundation Benefit Dinner & Casino Night that was held at the Atlanta Apparel Mart. Karma is believed to be a sum of all that [...]

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Service With A Smile

Amanda Hunt, NBC5 Street Team
Who said giving can’t be fun? Not me, and certainly not Manny B. & Co.and Tourneautwo magnificent jewelers who partnered up to fight juvenile diabetes.
I fell for Tourneau jewelry two years ago while visiting Lenox Square in Atlanta, and recently professed my undying love for Manny B in November of [...]

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The Host With The Most

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team
Now that warmer weather is here (allegedly), it also marks the time when I start to receive out-of-town guests on a regular basis. It’s funny how nobody ever bothered to visit me when I lived in such exciting locales as Indianapolis, Cincinnati or Louisville, Ky., but I guess it’s a testament [...]

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New Shoes

Tom Kolovos, NBC5 Street Team (Video)
As the infectious Paolo Nutini ditty “New Shoes”puts it: “Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenlyeverything’s right.”
Well, guys suddenly the right men’s shoe is a white shoe.Impractical, hard to keep clean and looking new, theymake for the ultimate fashion statement. Rappers madethem cool by sporting Addidas models. By [...]

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Pass the Dance Club. Hold the ‘Krem’.

Blagica Stefanovski, NBC5 Street Team (Video)I like a good night out. Combine that with celebrating a friend’s job promotion and you should have a winning formula. Last Saturday night, half of my formula was perfect. My good friend, John, was promoted and a few of us helped him celebrate at Lincoln Park bar Krem (the [...]

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Is it Wrong that Plan B is Usually My Plan A?

Sarah Vargo, NBC5 Street Team (Video)
There are so many new nightclubs opening up right now, but I have to say one of my favorite new venues is Plan B. If you haven’t been there yet, you can expect to enter a place where the mood is so carefree and there is no ‘attitude’ at [...]

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The 39th Annual Special Olympics in Chicago

Katrell Mendenhall, NBC5 Street Team (Video)

Opening Ceremonies were yesterday at Solider Field for one of the largest track and feild events held by “Special Olympics”.
The three day event starts today @ Eskersall Stadium on Yates and 83rd from 9-4pm. This year’s honoary Head Coach is Darin Erstad of the 2005 World Series White Sox. There [...]

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One of my favorites gone bad

Katrell Mendenhall, NBC5 Street Team (Video)
One of the things I love most about Chicago is the variety of food. No matter the price you can always find something of substance to fill your taste buds. Well, all day I was craving a chicken cesar wrap from the “Iguana Cafe” on Halsted and Grand. Although I [...]

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Welcome to the South LoopThe Hottest Neighborhood in the Country

Blagica Stefanovski, NBC5 Street Team (Video)
Wow. I just went to the mailbox and saw Chicago Magazine’s June edition, with the title of this post being on the cover. From my past posts, you know how much I love Chicago, but love my South Loop neighborhood even more. I had no idea it was getting [...]

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Cafe Iberico SangriaWhat You Are Really Drinking

Blagica Stefanovski, NBC5 Street Team (Video)Knowledge is truly a wonderful thing. Over the last few years, we’ve become more educated when it comes to what’s in our food, where the ingredients come from and what those ingredients really do to our bodies.
As my mother ordered some sangria from a local restaurant in metro-Detroit, [...]

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Looptopia: Good Night/Good Morning

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team (video)
So after they turned off the lights on me at the Chicago Cultural Center (something about a flashlight tour), I decided it was time to get off the streets and head back to the NBC Tower.
I uploaded some of the pictures and video my fellow bloggers gathered over the [...]

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Send Us Your Looptopia Pics

So this is where we rely on you, our readers, to hook us up with some pictures from Looptopia. Especially anybody who made it to the breakfast.
Got some pics for us? Upload them to http://www.nbc5.com/entertainment/13308533/detail.html

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Looptopia: Uptown Poetry

Katrell Mendenhall, NBC5 Street Team (Video)
I went to the most amazing improv comedy sketch called “Uptown Poetry.” It was a collaboration of music, spoken word, drama and standup storytelling!
It was hillarious to say the least. This was by far the best event I’ve been to all night. It had so much creativity and bizarre [...]

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Late Night At Looptopia

Jocelyn Geboy, NBC5 Street Team
Things are taking a grim turn at Looptopia. For an event billed as the “first-ever all-night celebration of its kind in the U.S.,” it’s quickly turning into a not so all-night party that’s getting shut down.
Foot traffic was shut down on Michigan Avenue north of Washington, and the stragglers left [...]

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Looptopia: Only The Strong Survive

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team (video)
As I headed out onto the street, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. There were a smattering of people all over the place. Columbia College also had an event tonight called Manifest, separate from Looptopia, and several of those students appeared to migrate north to join these festivities.

I [...]

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Looptopia: A Study In Contrasts

Susan Noble
As Mucca Pazza ended its act at Daley Plaza, about 100of us wandered across the street and into First UnitedMethodist Church, were we enjoyed the soothing soundsof Michigan Avenue Cantori — a study in contrast ifever there was one.
I’m not sure what Vivaldi, Bach or Mozart would havethought of Looptopia but, I sure am [...]

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