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Life: Outdoor Chicago

by anneMoore on September 18, 2009

In Chicago, we savor every warm sunny day in September. Last gasps of summer happen all over the globe, of course, but in Chicago each day of warmth and sun is one we soak up and store within ourselves. We’re like Lionni’s Frederick, who uses those rays to soothe his fellow mice during the bleak, [...]

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Art: Olafur Eliasson

by anneMoore on June 15, 2009

I’m often in awe of museum art; how or when it was created, how it’s presented. It’s a quiet, passive pleasure.
Delight, joy: at a museum? That’s rare.
Olafur Eliasson is the Danish-Icelandic artist whose installations can be seen and experienced at the Museum of Contemporary Art (220 E. Chicago Ave.) through Sept. 13.
Go. If you have [...]

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Dining: Bar Lunch

by anneMoore on June 12, 2009

I settled in for a bar lunch the other day at Joe’s, an elegant seafood and steak house off Michigan Avenue with my friend and colleague Barbara.
I’d been to Joe’s (60 E. Grand St.) several times, for review or to meet with editors. It’s pricey, but the seafood — especially their signature stone crab [...]

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Dining: Wells Street

by anneMoore on June 4, 2009

A friend who owns restaurants says patrons come back, time after time, for a signature dish. Something no other restaurant makes or prepares in the same way.
I’d widen the reasons for returning to a restaurant: portions, presentation, ingredients, certain servers, a special view.
Two restaurants in my Old Town neighborhood, opened within the past two years, [...]

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