Fashion | Yohji Yamamoto red dress

Art Institute of Chicago has an 11-piece, plus one installation, exhibition till April 7, 2013 called Material Translations: Japanese Fashion from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I zeroed in on this one. It is red. Designed by Yohji Yamamoto | Dress circa 1991 | Wool

Art | Gallery 37 Center for the Arts: TWENTY

Created in 1991 on a vacant downtown lot known as Block 37, Gallery 37 is a space for the Chicago’s youth to practice art, to work with and be mentored by professional artists. Currently run by the not-for-profit After School Matters, it is a program created by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs' Lois Weisberg and late Maggie Daley, wife of the city's former mayor, Richard M. Daley. Currently, the space features a show called TWENTY – a cabaret of songs, scenes and dances from 20 popular Broadway shows – performed by young and very talented “Triple Threats”, i.e. teens who can act, dance and, boy can they, sing!

There are eight shows left:

Monday August 6 – 12 noon and 7 pm,

Tuesday August 7 – 12 noon and 7 pm,

Wednesday August 8 – 12 noon and 7 pm, and

Thursday August 9 – 12 noon and 7 pm,

at The Storefront Theater at 66 E. Randolph ( at Michigan Ave and Randolph), the home of Gallery 37.

The tickets are FREE. Go to http://twenty.eventbrite.com/ to reserve and print your tickets!

Support the growing talent!



Food | WTF?! Homaro & Ben of Moto totally spin it on its head

Yes, bypass the cow J

Playing with Retro Camera iThingy App at Slurping Turtle

Top: The Bärbl, Little Orange Box, Xolaroid 2000; Bottom: pinhOle camera, FudgeCan, Hipsteroku ©MAK

Nowadays, a “table turd” at a restaurant is alright. Not hip anymore, just common place. The cameras on these “table turds” are getting better and better, giving us a chance to flood the ether with a photographic documentation of life’s minutiae and proof of existence. So to task I went. I do exist. To keep it fun, at least for me, and to add a smattering of quasi-experiment like feel, I put every camera on the Retro Camera iThingy App to work by documenting the same thing. It is a strange notion this app – a concoction of hipster ethos à la early 2000s and nostalgia applied to improved iThingy optics. Go figure. But me like. And what better way than photographing the offerings at Chicago’s Slurping Turtle! The appetizer, and those that followed hit the spot, and the Tonkotu noodle soup of egg noodles, silky (and they don’t lie) pork broth, braised pork shoulder pieces (that balanced sweetness against the porky taste) and mustard greens, that I topped the appetizers with, all made me very happy. Just what I want from food. As for the retro photos – pick your favorite; and if truly obsessed – get the real thing. Both thumbs up.

Tatami Room at l2o

”That’s the way clam should taste.” Thank you for a SUBLIME evening Tralfamadoria Charo  and  FractalWhim.

http://www.l2orestaurant.com/