Food, Inc.--> A Robert Kenner Film

Premiere Date: April 21, 2010

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When the heck will you get a blue cart?

The answer, sadly, is that we don't know. The City of Chicago 2010 budget doesn't allocate any money to continue the roll out of Blue Carts citywide. And the Department of Streets and Sanitation, which runs the program, has yet to give specifics about if and when the program will continue to move forward. That means that roughly 40% of buildings with 4 or fewer units have Blue Carts.

The best that CRC can do at the moment is read the tea leaves, and they tell us that if you don't have a Blue Cart now, you're probably not going to receive one anytime soon. What's more, if you DO have a Blue Cart, it is likely that your recycling pick-ups will be scaled back to every THREE weeks from the current two week pick-up.

Again, this is what we're hearing. As of the beginning of the year there has been no press release or official announcement from Streets and San.

 

UGHHHHH!!!!! COME ON WARD 26!!

Antipasti

Marinated Olives  4
Pork Fried Almonds with Rosemary & Garlic  4
Shaved Brussel Sprouts with Pecorino Noce &
Parmigiano reggiano  5
Clams with Rosamarina  6
Salt-roasted Beets with
Whipped Goat Cheese & Pistachio Vinaigrette  5
Sicilian Marinated Eggplant  4
Olive oil-Poached Tuna with Greek Lima Beans  6
Butternut Squash with Pumpkin Seeds,
Brown Butter & Ricotta Salata  4
Rapini with Whipped Ricotta  5
Lardo Crostini  7

Salad

Endive and Arugula with
Covadonga Bleu Cheese & Orange  7
Mixed Greens with Feta, Radishes &
Red Wine Mint Vinaigrette  6
Carrot, Avocado & Fennel Salad with
Citrus Vinaigrette  7

Fried Items

Sardines with Lemon Jam  9
Winter Squash & Goat Cheese
Arancini with Sage Pesto  5
Prosciutto Bread Balls  4
Deviled Egg with Arugula &
Caper Berries  5
Pig%u2019s Ear with Crispy Kale, Marinated Cherry Peppers & Fried Egg  6
Whitebait  7
Brussel Sprouts with
Thyme and Lemon  5

Panini

Salami Toscana, Goat Cheese &
Black Olive Pesto  8
Porchetta with Salsa Verde  9
Grilled Cheese of the Day  8

cured meats

Lingua Agrodolce  6
Gabagool/Coppa 7 
Testa  6
Jamon Serrano  8  
Finocchiona Salami  6
Majorcan Sobrasada  7
Prosciutto di Parma  9
Catalonian Fuet  7
Purple Pig Platter  29

Smears

Mortadella, Balsamico & Pistachio  5
House Cured Baccalrandade  6
Pork Neck Bone Rillette with Mostarda  6
Whipped Feta with Cucumbers  6
Eggplant Caponata with Goat Cheese  5
Pork Liver Patbsp; 5
Roasted Bone Marrow with Herbs  6
Calabro Ricotta with Pork Neck Bone Gravy 6

Cheese
3 For 14   {OR}   5 For 23
5 Per Selection

Blu di Bufala
Piccolo Triple Cream
Delice de Bourgogne
Taleggio
Capriole O%u2019Bannon
Prairie Breeze
Cabot Clothbound Cheddar
Podda
Parmigiano Reggiano
Manchego Curado
Bucheron
Mahon Curado
Covadonga
Valdeon
Pecorino Noce

a la Plancha, etc.

Sepia with Toasted Almonds & Fried Rosemary  10
Octopus with acini di pepe & Swiss Chard  8
Charred Scallions with Romesco Sauce  8
Wagyu Sirloin Tip with Bone Marrow Vinaigrette  17
Prawns a la Plancha  16
Chicken Thigh Kebabs with
Fried Smashed Potatoes & Tzatziki  9
Pork Blade Steak with %u2018Nduja & Honey  14
Pig%u2019s Tails Braised in Balsamic  9 
Milk Braised Pork Shoulder  9
Skatewing with Beets & Guanciale 14
Quail with Salsify & Pomegranate 8

We ate at the Purple Pig this past weekend. It was delicious! Go eat there!

CHICAGO — A small pre-dawn earthquake has hit northern Illinois, startling sleepy-eyed residents as far away as Iowa and Indiana, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the 3.8-magnitude earthquake hit about 50 miles northwest of Chicago at 4 a.m. Wednesday. The USGS initially reported the magnitude as 4.3 but later downgraded it.

USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says such quakes are rare in northern Illinois. She says the agency received reports from Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana about feeling the ground shake.

Sheriff's dispatchers near the epicenter in Kane County say they've been flooded with calls from startled residents. But spokesman Lt. Pat Gengler says no injuries or damage have been reported.

Residents reported being tossed out of bed and finding books and tools scattered across the floor.

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On the Net:

U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/

It shook my bed!

WATCH THIS NOW.

article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2010/02/the_worst_political_ad_ever....

"Swimming"

©Hasbro

Hasbro has unveiled the design of the new 75th anniversary edition of their classic board game, Monopoly, set to hit stores in fall of 2010. "Monopoly: Revolution Edition" is slick and round instead of dull and square, with debit cards and an ATM instead of paper money and a banker, clear plastic representations of the classic tokens (bye-bye, little boot!), and clips of popular songs (like Rihanna’s "Umbrella," Daniel Powter’s "Bad Day," and Beyonce's "Crazy in Love") that play after certain actions.

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This is not the first game to get a modern reboot (there’s an update to the classic Trivial Pursuit, and Scrabble got a face-lift for its 60th anniversary), but Monopoly’s changes will undoubtedly appeal to the 21st century's techie youngsters. For one thing, the adjusted-for-inflation prizes are more impressive.

Players can collect $2 million dollars for passing “Go” instead of a mere $200 — practically what the average kid gets for losing a tooth these days. But it's bound to annoy die-hard fans of the comforting classic version, who might send it directly to jail come next fall. (At least they can take comfort in the fact that Monopoly: Revolution retains the classic Atlantic City-based street system.)

So far, the Internet echo chamber's biggest criticism focuses on the new version's tight security. It seems that when it comes to Monopoly, half the fun comes from cheating by stealing from the till when nobody's looking, a loophole the new version closes with its fancy electronic banking. (However, an electronic banking version has actually been on the market for years.) Surely our nation's tech-savvy youth will somehow find a way to game the "Monopoly" system, assuming they can be pried away from screens long enough to start a game.