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Best Place to Ogle Women
BIG CHICKS OWNED BY MICHELLE FIRE
A (male) gay bar and its adjacent restaurant seem like the last places you’d go to check out ladies (though perfectly beautiful ones have been known to hang out with queers, if only to get away from leering gazes). But anybody with eyes can’t help but gawk at Big Chicks and its next-door sister restaurant, Tweet, because the art collection here would reduce many museums to whimpers. Indeed, Michelle Fire, who serves as both owner and curator of Big Chicks, has been known to lend out parts of her collection to museums. What’s this have to do with women? Fire prefers work by women that grapples with women’s issues, so her collection is a visual cornucopia featuring the feminine mind, body and mystique. There’s no need to be shy: These are the chicks you’re supposed to stare at. 5024 N Sheridan Rd, 773-728-5511.—David Tamarkin
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Graham Elliot Bowles' tweets might be clever, but he breaks one of the foremost rules of twitter etiquette by not following anyone at all! Not cool.
Cookwolf.blogspot.com is a nifty site, even for those of us who can't boil water. If you loved Emily's work in the Trib -- and who didn't? -- you'll eat up this blog with a spoon. I'd read it even if I didn't happen to know Emily. The writing sparkles, and the pictures pop. Who knew raw vegetables could look so sexy?