We are all looking for it every day. We are scouting, scouring, and searching for that elusive beast of a feeling. It’s a never ending quest and just when we think we captured it, it seems to have shifted shape and form before we can really grasp it in our…

Shifting settings at the John Mayer concert I was expecting mimosas, but was greeted by Vienna beef hot dogs. From the dress of the audience, you’d’ve expected us to be at a summer time Chi rooftop brunch spot, not the house that Jordan built. …

“Well, what kind of music does he play?” Jamie and I heading down Lincoln Avenue, brushing past the DePaul college students getting after it on a St. Patrick’s Day Friday night. There’s an added pep in our step that is in part from the cold air pressed on our faces…

It’s a bar for drinking. It’s a bar for thinking. Not much else. Take it or leave it. But you should probably take it. Old Town Ale House sits along North Avenue in its namesake’s neighborhood. There’s a distance of maybe two hundred feet from the nightlife and trendiness of…

On accepting and pushing through writer’s block Lately it feels like my blood has been replaced with vinegar. There’s this acidic, dour substance that feels like it’s permeating through my veins and percolating through my skin every time I try to write. It is as uncomfortable as it appears to…

After enduring the greatest tragedy the band’s ever known, the Foos are coming back to help us all get through it Dave Grohl has a wild look in his eyes. Stretched out before him across all of Chicago’s Millennium Park, rock fans congregate for only the kind of sermon Grohl…

It is safe to say my best thinking does not occur at 3am. The hours between midnight and dusk are not meant for thoughtful, decisive, decision making. Yet as the world turns from the depths of night into the wee early hours of morning, and the universe throws a tool…

Anything I wanted to know, any place I needed to go (I wrote) I’m trying to think of a creative way to open this blog. Something eye-catching. Something with enough pop and sizzle, that will keep you reading on the edge of your seat, anxiously awaiting what sort of punchline…

The do’s, don’ts, and don’t-even-think-about-its when attending your sister-in law’s wedding What a weekend this is shaping up to be. France v. Argentina in an epic World Cup Final. NFL games are on not just Sunday, but Saturday too! In fact, the Cleveland Browns are one of those teams playing…