Hideout lineup moves en masse to WBEZ
OK, not really — but hey, congrats to the Interview Show‘s Mark Bazer and Funny Ha-Ha‘s Claire Zulkey, the latest additions to WBEZ’s roster of bloggers! They join folks like Jim DeRogatis and fellow newbie Louisa Chu in adding their take on … whatever it is they’ll be writing about … to WBEZ’s terrific coverage […]
A Special Summer Soup & Bread
Hey, hot stuff! This Wednesday, July 6, were hosting a last-minute, one-off, seat-of-the-pants Soup & Bread to benefit a place dear to our hearts: The Garfield Park Conservatory. The Conservatory was seriously damaged by hail on June 30; an estimated 13,000 panes of glass throughout the greenhouses were shattered by the golf balls of ice […]
Free yoga with Marcelyn Cole
Feeling logy? Sluggish? Tight in the quads? Well, do we have the cure for you. Bartender and tireless yoga teacher Marci reports that she’s teaching FREE yoga at Millennium Park for the next three Saturdays at 8 am as part of the city’s “Free Summer Workouts” series. She’s also teaching a special yoga class from […]
Happy birthday, Honeyboy!
The stupendous Honeyboy Edwards turns 96 today. 96!!!!!!! So of course we made him a banner. And by we, I mean Andrea.
Girls Rock!
Speaking of the Reader’s Best-Of issue (and of urinals), Girls Rock! Camp was dubbed Best Place to Hear a Band of Nine-Year-Old Girls That Sounds Like the Urinals. And, well, we LOVE Girls Rock! Camp — and not just because some of our staff and associates have spent the last week teaching Chicago’s coolest tweens […]
Four days left to support the LPO
Hey folks! We checked in on Lawrence’s Kickstarter project and discovered, to our joy, that he has already met his goal to raise $5,000 to fund the final stages of the debut rekkid from the Lawrence Peters Outfit. But! If you still want to get in on the action, you can — there are four […]
Hideout staff: Out from behind the bar
I know, it’s true … we live to serve our lovely patrons, to take their money and make them tasty drinks and let them know when the tamale guy is here. Still, there are rare moments when we are forced to tear ourselves away from the bar. Here’s what some of us have been doing […]
Literary Chicago alive and well on Wabansia Street
Over on her “Citylife” blog for WBEZ, Achy Obejas leads a nice piece on Chicago’s literary scene with a shout-out to bars like the Hideout and the Green Mill that have helped foster grassroots literary culture through events like Write Club and this past week’s Literary Death Match, which I hear was MOBBED. If, like […]
The patio is now open
Three months, one mud-pit-and-gangplank, and countless clouds of dust later … we have a patio. Let the summer commence.
Andrea on Algren
You know she makes an artful Manhattan — but did you know what she could do with a canvas larger than a rocks glass? Hideout bartender Andrea Jablonski recently completed this gorgeous mural at the Harlem Green Line stop in Oak Park. The rugged subject: Nelson Algren, who once lived a stone’s throw from the […]
