Posts in January 2015

Peter Luger, a drool worthy steakhouse!

  January 14, 2015  //  Peter Luger

When Ivan Pavlov rang a bell, his dogs started salivating. It was all part of an experiment about behavioral conditioning. Ring a bell every time you give a dog dinner, and they’ll drool like a waterfall when they hear the sound. You can perform the same experiment today with humans. Say the word “steak”, and…

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Delectable Desserts Await at The Flaky Tart

  January 8, 2015  //  The Flaky Tart

There are phrases you can’t get away with saying very often. Put certain words together, and it’s a recipe for offending everyone in earshot. Things like standing in Union Station with a megaphone and shouting, “Chicago has better pizza!” will come to no good end. But today, we’re giving you an excuse to run a…

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Tap Your Toes All Weekend at the Winter Jazzfest 2015

  January 6, 2015  //  Winter Jazzfest 2015

So you’re sick to death of the sound of silver bells, and you’ve about reached your last noel, but you’re not quite ready for a silent night. No problem! The end of the holiday carols has arrived, and you can cleanse your musical palette with some of the best jazz music around. From January 8…

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See Stars on Broadway with Jake Gyllenhaal in “Constellations”

  January 5, 2015  //  Constellations

Philosophers and physicists don’t always travel down the same paths of thought. There’s one theory that has some of both thinking, though, and it involves the idea of different, parallel realities. Every time you make a decision, they say, another reality comes into being. In those different realities, you live out the different consequences of…

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