Comments on: The Furious Kvetch at Benyamin Bissell

By: Happy Birthday to Me: Four Years of CHICAGO CARLESS

Happy Birthday to Me: Four Years of CHICAGO CARLESS — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:23:35 +0000

[...] of that, witness the unfriendly rants about friends and dates that opened 2009 on CARLESS aimed at Gino Vesuvius, Mikey Stickler (et al.), Cincinnati Jamie, and Gay [...]

By: Relatively Speaking Downtown

Relatively Speaking Downtown — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:16:13 +0000

[...] me had the urge to shake him right then and there. “That’s what you think,” I hissed before stumbling. [...]

By: Sanctuary at the Bottom of a Deep Dish

Sanctuary at the Bottom of a Deep Dish — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:17:03 +0000

[...] of my Chicago life into the promise of a wallet-friendly, tourist-light, stress-free dinner. (The Benyamin Bissell incident [...]

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:33:49 +0000

I take fish oil in liquid form, not as a giant pill–I can’t deal well with horse pills like that. It doesn’t affect me the same way.

Mind you, stick with the Carlson’s liquid fish oil–it tastes like lemon. The cheaper brands are half the price, but taste like cod mixed in a blender. Blech!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:39:54 +0000

Hey Mike , How do you deal with the fish blech’s from the omaga 3 I have taken then before and could not get past that all day.. I took one today to try and see if they help my A.D.D any helpfull hints. MS

By: delk

delk — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:47:12 +0000

Born and raised native. Back of the Yards guy. Had a 14 year relationship with a native Chicagoan Italian. He was born and raised in DePaul, back before it was the upscale ‘hood, but an Italian ghetto.

Oddly now, just celebrated 10 years with a NY Jew (he never imagined he’d be here this long!)

And, thin crust non-chain is were it’s at!

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:56:04 +0000

Deep-dish pizza is Chicago-style pizza because it was born in Chicago. In the city. Downtown. Places "on the west and south sides like Elmwood Park, Harlem Ave. Berwyn, Bridgeport, Oak Lawn etc." are all one thing: in the suburbs (or in the case of Harlem, might as well be). Although I will say my favorite deep dish is at Alex and Aldo's in LaGrange Park, a stuck-in-time, shabby, old 1960s wood-paneled pizzeria lounge hidden in a strip mall. (I'd kill for their olive-stuffed fried parmesan balls.) My favorite pizza in Manhattan would be the John's in the Theater District that used to be a church. Their onion & black olive pizza with the house red was a favorite lunch of me and a colleague when I used to work in Times Square back in the early 2000s, before I moved to the Second (but better) City. And as anyone with any sense knows, the best NYC-style thin-crust in Chicago lives at Santullo's at North & Milwaukee in Wicker Park.