At Prairie Fire, finesse elevates comfort food Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris have returned to Chicago with the recent opening of their second restaurant. Like Prairie Grass in Northbrook, Prairie Fire on North Clinton Street features the two chefs’ signature American comfort food prepared with classic French sensibility and ingredients from local, sustainable farms.
Speed Dating Meet other singles during quick “interview” dates. Includes cash bar.
Crimzon Spider Rock Lounge This pop-up bar concept moves into the banquet hall at Don Carlos featuring open mic performances and Rock Band on a projector screen.
Hokkaido’s female farmers toil away in countryside couture Farm clothes are not known for their sartorial elegance, but a group of Hokkaido women are staging their own catwalk shows with a new line of outdoor farmwear they are calling “Agri-Fashion.” The women behind “Agri-Fashion,” which sounds similar to “ugly fashion” when pronounced in Japanese, are even touting it as a movement with the potential to attract younger people to careers in farming.
Penthouse G If the fuming martinis don't get you the spectacular neon panorama will. Located on the ninth floor of a building in swanky Ginza, the cityscape view is straight out of Bladerunner. The interior is very film noir – dark leather and slick lines – the creative genius of the same set designer from Year of the Dragon…
Albion Art President Kazumi Arikawa Kazumi Arikawa, 57, is the president of the Albion Art Co. Ltd. in Tokyo. Arikawa is one of the world’s top dealers and collectors of historical jewelry, from the Greco-Roman era to the Art Deco period. He specializes in tiaras and cameos of European monarchs, and jewels that adorned historical figures. The cameo that Napoleon I carried with him to his exile on the island of St. Helena in 1815, and the Diadem of Princess Marie Bonaparte, created by Cartier, are just the type of pieces that Arikawa falls in love with. And once that happens, he doesn’t rest until he gets his hands on them. His formidable collection is frequently on display in museums around the world. In 2007 he was the biggest lender of jewels for the “Brilliant Europe: Jewels from European Courts” exhibition in Brussels, preceding even the Louvre Museum in Paris. And this January, he is again the top lender for the “Pearls” exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. For his contribution to preserving jewelry by historic French houses, such as Chaumet, Boucheron, Cartier, Mauboussin and Mellerio, in March 2007 he received the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture. I am not important. Who cares about who sold the Mona Lisa to whom! We care about the Mona Lisa. Same with me: I’m a nobody, but the jewels I love are treasures.
The Relationship Code, (19th Feb 10) Understanding others can be a daily challenge, simply because we?re all different. We don?t always see things the same way. We all have strengths and weaknesses. Things that are important to me, an…
Gaz’s Rockin Blues Gaz Mayall’s always-rammed night for fans of ska, classic R&B, R&R, rocksteady and jive around live bands each week. Tonight: Katy Prado and the Mamboleros.
Groove Sanctuary: House Dance UK Competition III (28th Feb 10) Top flight professional dancers from France, the UK and the USA will make up the panel of judges for Groove Sanctuary?s third House Dance UK competition ? where some of the UK?s most sensational mover…
Via Audio Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie calls Via Audio his favorite band. Spoons Jim Eno was so enamored with the group, he agreed to record its first album, Say Something.” Via Audios upturn began a couple years back after a chance encounter with Eno after a gig in Bostonvocalist and Berklee School of…
The Veterans Five long-running acts that are as worthy of your time and money as ever.
Independance Pool Party @ The Surfcomber he 5th Annual Independance 4th of July Pool Party in Miami Beach was a fantastic event just like last year. Bikini clad vixens prancing around to the music of Danny Tenaglia at the Surfcomber’s beachside pool will always be a good party!
Miami 4th of July Pool Party
The 5th Annual Independance 4th of July Pool Party in Miami Beach was a fantastic event just like last year. Bikini clad vixens prancing around to the music of Danny Tenaglia at the Surfcomber’s beachside pool will always be a good party!
Models & Playboy Playmates along with muscle-bound supermen make for some great people watching entertainment. Check out the photos and pretend like you were there.
Cosplay @ Sushi Samba Once a month, on a Tuesday night, the Cosplay Wasabi Fashion Party takes over Sushi Samba on Lincoln Road in South Beach. There is a different color theme each time, this month it happened to be a pink invasion.
Cosplay @ Sushi Samba
Once a month, on a Tuesday night, the Cosplay Wasabi Fashion Party takes over Sushi Samba on Lincoln Road in South Beach. There is a different color theme each time, this month it happened to be a pink invasion.
The Wasabi Fashion aliens came down from planet pink to convert sushi lovers into dance maniacs and propagate their interplanetory mating rituals on the humans of earth.
Once the invasion is complete, Queen of Cosplay, Pamela Wasabi, gathers up her army and plans next month’s attack on the unsuspecting South Beach scene.
Nightclub Photography Tips (Part 1) Low ISO settings are beneficial in nightclub photography because they reduce the amount of sensor noise that will show up in the photos. But with a low ISO setting, the sensor doesn’t pick up as much light as it can with higher ISO settings. Because most nightclub photography is done in low light situations, which settings are best for nightlife photographers to use?
Nightclub Photography Tips
ISO Settings
Low ISO settings are beneficial in nightclub photography because they reduce the amount of sensor noise that will show up in the photos. But with a low ISO setting, the sensor doesn’t pick up as much light as it can with higher ISO settings. Because most nightclub photography is done in low light situations, which settings are best for nightlife photographers to use?
It depends on the light environment at the nightclub. Some nightclubs are brighter than others, and you can use a lower ISO setting without much issue. Others are very dark, and you’ll need to increase the ISO to get the light you need, while also keeping the shutter speed high to minimize motion blur.
I like to start with my ISO set at 800 in most nightclubs. I’ve found this setting gives the best bang for your buck in nightlife photography. There isn’t too much noise for most camera bodies, and it burns just the right amount of light onto the sensor. I use this setting when taking close-up portraits of party people in the club. I often use different ISO settings for performers and large crowd shots.
You can’t just “set it and forget it” in nightclub photography because the people, light, and action are constantly changing, and you need to change with them to get the best photos.
Quince review: Delicious new page follows storied past For 20 years I’ve been driving up to this Evanston address, and it has rewarded me with a lifetime of dining memories. This unpretentious, multiroom space has been home to Café Provencal and Trio, their kitchens graced by such stellar names as Leslee Reis, Rick Tramonto, Gale Gand, Shawn McClain and Grant Achatz. I can recall Achatz’s olive-oil ice cream sandwich amuse, Tramonto’s mushroom cappuccino, and the time Andy Reis refused my American Express card (he was feuding with the company at the time).
At Prairie Fire, finesse elevates comfort food Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris have returned to Chicago with the recent opening of their second restaurant. Like Prairie Grass in Northbrook, Prairie Fire on North Clinton Street features the two chefs’ signature American comfort food prepared with classic French sensibility and ingredients from local, sustainable farms.
Dirty Bingo Includes 10 Bingo boards and one drink (each additional board costs $1; every $10 board comes with a drink), plus prizes from the Pleasure Chest.
Confucius says reading on will help your Japanese I remember the first kanji I ever wrote. In fact, I still have them — a Chinese aphorism roughly equivalent to “seeing is believing.” In 1964, I awkwardly copied them out of a book on linguistics from my high school library in North Carolina. I was about to turn 17 and could not possibly have imagined that within 12 months I would be living in Okinawa. While recently rummaging through a box left in storage several decades ago, I found myself peering into an old notebook, and there were the kanji — ?????? — I had transcribed 40 years earlier. The Chinese saying is familiar to virtually all Japanese as ????????????(“Hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu”) — literally, “One hundred hearings are not equal to seeing once.”
Penthouse G If the fuming martinis don't get you the spectacular neon panorama will. Located on the ninth floor of a building in swanky Ginza, the cityscape view is straight out of Bladerunner. The interior is very film noir – dark leather and slick lines – the creative genius of the same set designer from Year of the Dragon…
Agave Agave is a slice of Mexico just off Roppongi’s main drag. Here the Tequila gods rule – there are approximately 350 brands on offer. Frida Kahlo prints sit on the walls alongside posters of Zapata, while Mexican music plays over the speakers and the food coming out of the kitchen is invariably loaded with salsa and guacamole – but somehow, given all…
Blacker Dread Records Brixton’s latest venue takes it back to the borough’s black roots with plenty of UK and US reggae from local record store Blacker Dread’s selectah Senior P.
Five long-running acts that are as worthy of your time and money as ever. 
Agave is a slice of Mexico just off Roppongi’s main drag. Here the Tequila gods rule – there are approximately 350 brands on offer. Frida Kahlo prints sit on the walls alongside posters of Zapata, while Mexican music plays over the speakers and the food coming out of the kitchen is invariably loaded with salsa and guacamole – but somehow, given all… 
