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Skip dinner and enjoy supper with the acclaimed New York City Culinary Salon, City Grit, featuring Mark Steuer, the chef behind Chicago's The Carriage House. Enter to win today's Gift Bag, which will take your palette south of the Mason-Dixon line for a low-country culinary experience. Sample the flavors of the unique cuisine in coastal South Carolina and enjoy the social amusement of a CITY GRIT dinner this April. More»
Let's not forget that the Big Apple did it first, but many other cities are being inspired by the High Line. All over the world, architects and artists are designing their own elevated parks and projects. From Germany to San Francisco, we've rounded up the top 5 High Line inspired projects! More»
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There's really no way around it; L.A.'s late-night liquor and bar laws are a bit of a bummer. Sure, 2 a.m. is way past any reasonable person's bedtime, but it still kind of stings that at one in the morning, when our holier-than-thou brethren in New York, Miami, Chicago and elsewhere are still getting ready to go out, we're often calling cabs and packing it in. Some might say that the solution is to start our parties earlier, but I disagree. The solution is to pack way, way more fun into the shorter time available to us. And for that reason, I salute Drai's, Ledisko, and everyone behind last night's Moonlight Swim party featuring YACHT. You guys seriously fit a whole lot of party into just a few hours. More»
Do you like free drinks? Me too. This past weekend, Guest of a Guest was invited to Hotel Thrillist Chicago, a two day event where guests were invited to party Hotel Thrillist style as the young company showed off how it got its influential media success. Bacardi was one of the event's generous sponsors as the plastic cups never seemed to be empty of mojito or sweet and sour drinks. In all, the events showed outsiders a neat version of the Windy City nightlife as the parties took place at popular venues including The Radisson Blu Aqua hotel, The Mid, and Park West. More»
Hermes is taking the meaning of fashion house to a whole new level. Luxury developer SC Global Developments recently unveiled the world's first private hospitality apartment decorated exclusively by Hermes. More»
Megan Tandy, Erica Rose and Mark Foster from Foster The People hit up the imaginatively named F*CK CANCER event at Avalon Hollywood; Bruce Vilanch, Jaime Pressly, Greg Louganis, Missi Pyle and many others show up to support an ageless Christie Brinkley and John O'Hurley at the Pantages L.A. premiere of "Chicago"; composers John Williams and Rolfe Kent are the big winners at BMI's Film/TV Awards in Beverly Hills honoring achievements in film and television music; international human rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu is honored by Swiss luxury watchmaker Girard-Perregaux. Wednesday night was anything but boring in L.A., so check out all the charity events, stage premieres, awards shows and deep philosophical conversations that went down in this Thursday edition of Last Night's Parties!
Christie Brinkey outside the "Chicago" Opening Night [via] More»
Although Laura Lombardi hails from New York, she traded in the apple for some wind in 2008—a move motivated by a desire to continue art school in Chicago, but that instead led to the creation of her eponymous line of vintage-fueled metal jewelry in 2009. (She made an amazing pair of brass earrings just for Of a Kind this week!) Here are the seven Manhattanite-approved spots that, according to Laura, you have to hit next time you make your way to the capital of the Midwest. More»
I love Chicago. Most of my family is from there, so I get to go back every so often, and I always have a great time. It's big, fun, cheap, friendly, accessible and full of cool places and buildings. It might be, pound for pound, the best city in America. Or at least, it might have been the best city in America. Based on these Cobra Snake photos of a Crystal Castles show/pre-Lollapalooza costume party, I'm a little worried that Chi Town may have been built on an Indian Burial Ground or something. Is Lollapalooza always this scary? [all photos via]
Not your usual birthday check from Grandma...
Today is President Obama's 50th birthday!
He did most of the celebrating last night (seems like Thursday would be more fun than Wednesday, at least you're hungover with everyone else on Friday at work) in Chicago with two grand campaign fundraising parties.
We gave some ideas this morning to have an NYC staycation this Memorial Day Weekend! But what if you just want to party?! From free concerts to pool and dance parties, we give you our top picks for kicking off the Summer 2011 season! If you're headed east, check out our Hamptons Party Guide. More»
Upon first seeing this photo, confusion and so many questions flooded my tired, tired brain that will not rest until it understands the "why's" to everything. But before I could get to finding answers, I had to wipe the mist from my eyes and pick myself up off of the office floor where I had keeled over laughing because this is the most ridiculous thing I've seen all week:
Adrian Grenier, Richard Branson
Excuse me, but why is Sir Richard Branson wearing a boxer Halloween costume on a red carpet rolled out on a tarmac? Does that robe seriously say "Bruiser Branson"? (Yep.) Why is he socking Adrian Grenier in the face? Is Branson attempting to set new world records in douche by socking douches in the face as they deplane? And why is Grenier in that suit?! Does he work at WME now?? The answer: Virgin America, now servicing O'Hare International Airport with flights to L.A. and San Fran. More»
Interview With Creative Time's Anne Pasternak Who Is Changing The Way We View Our Public Art
We sat down with Anne Pasternak for a few questions about Creative Time's past and future, as well as the importance of having an awareness about public art in the city.
