[ad_1]
Y’all yelled about it, and we heard you! Today, Jomi and Steve will dive into a few of the many shows and movies in the world of fandom that you have suggested we watch, including From, Slow Horses, and The Wild Robot. Later, producer Kerm joins to discuss some of our favorite recently released comic books!
Hosts: Jomi Adeniran and Steve Ahlman
Producer: Jonathan Kermah
Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopal
Subscribe: Spotify / Apple Podcasts
[ad_2]
Jomi Adeniran
Source link
[ad_1]
After seven years in Pilsen, S.K.Y. will close and move to the North Side. Stephen Gillanders announced via Instagram on Wednesday afternoon, reiterating what he earlier told food writer Ari Bendersky: the chef is bringing his first restaurant to the former Intro Chicago space, the restaurant he worked at when he first moved to Chicago nearly a decade ago.
Intro, owned by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, was a restaurant that cycled through chefs and menus, giving the inexperienced a foundation so they could open their own restaurants. Gillanders joined the operation in 2015 and LEYE co-founder Rich Melman eventually elevated him to the restaurant’s first executive chef where Gillanders oversaw operations. Gillanders left in 2017 after deciding that Chicago, not LA, would be the home of his first restaurant. S.K.Y. (named after his wife). He would open in Pilsen later that year. Lettuce would later close Intro in July 2017.
There’s no public date of when S.K.Y. will close in Pilsen and open in Lincoln Park. In an interview with Bendersky, Gillanders was complimentary of Pilsen, a neighborhood that didn’t welcome the restaurant with open arms back in 2017. The chef says about 70 percent of S.K.Y.’s customers live near the restaurant’s new home at 2300 N. Lincoln Park West inside the Belden-Stratford. S.K.Y. was also impacted in 2022 after the Jean Banchet Awards pulled a nomination for the restaurant’s sommelier, Jelena Prodan, following a controversial incident at the Pilsen restaurant. That move, quickly pushed by the awards’ former beneficiary (the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation), led the Banchet team — which annually honors Chicago restaurants — to part ways with the foundation and team with a new charity.
S.K.Y. is hoping to leave that history behind. But still, popular dishes, like the lobster dumplings, should make the move north. The new version of S.K.Y. will have a private dining room dedicated to a tasting menu. Tasting menus are something Gillanders has been fond of, as Valhalla, his newly relocated Wicker Park restaurant, is built around the concept. Lettuce housed several restaurants inside the cavernous space, and Gillanders is planning to renovate the former Naoki Sushi space into a speakeasy-style bar. There are also plans for a 20-seat patio overlooking Lincoln Park Zoo.
Beyond S.K.Y. and Valhalla, Gillanders has a South Loop restaurant, Apolonia, and he worked on the menu at Signature a sports bar owned by former Chicago Bear Israel Idonije. Gillanders, along with star pastry chef Tatum Sinclair, are also opening Haven, a cafe with a pastry gallery during the day and an “intimate chefs counter dessert tasting menu” at night in West Town.
S.K.Y. 2.0, 2300 N. Lincoln Park West, opening date TBD.
[ad_2]
Ashok Selvam
Source link
[ad_1]
Today in History
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2022. There are 60 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Nov. 1, 1991, Clarence Thomas took his place as the newest justice on the Supreme Court.
On this date:
In 1478, the Spanish Inquisition was established.
In 1512, Michelangelo’s just-completed paintings on the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel were publicly unveiled by the artist’s patron, Pope Julius II.
In 1604, William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
In 1765, the Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament, went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
In 1861, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln named Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan General-in-Chief of the Union armies, succeeding Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott.
In 1870, the United States Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
In 1936, in a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Rome and Berlin.
In 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, D.C., in a failed attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. (One of the pair was killed, along with a White House police officer.)
In 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, code-named “Ivy Mike,” at Enewetak (en-ih-WEE’-tahk) Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
In 1989, East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West.
In 1995, Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio, with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
In 2007, less than a week after workers ratified a new contract, Chrysler announced 12,000 job cuts, or about 15 percent of its work force.
Ten years ago: Israel, lifting a nearly 25-year veil of secrecy, acknowledged it had killed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s deputy in a 1988 raid in Tunisia. (Khalil al-Wazir, who was better known by his nom de guerre Abu Jihad, founded Fatah, the dominant faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization.)
Five years ago: Federal prosecutors brought terrorism charges against the man accused in the Manhattan truck rampage a day earlier that left eight people dead; prosecutors said Sayfullo Saipov had asked to display the Islamic State group’s flag in the hospital room where he was recovering from police gunfire. President Donald Trump tweeted that the suspect in the truck attack should get the death penalty. Prompting celebrations in a city still recovering from Hurricane Harvey, the Houston Astros won their first World Series championship, beating the Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7 in Los Angeles.
One year ago: The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University. About 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with a new COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and thousands of city firefighters called out sick in an apparent protest over the requirement. Real estate scion Robert Durst was indicted on a murder charge in the disappearance of his first wife nearly four decades earlier; he was already serving a life sentence for killing a confidante who helped cover up that slaying. (Durst died in January 2022.) At a U.N. summit in Scotland, President Joe Biden apologized for former President Donald Trump’s decision to leave the Paris climate change agreement, and for the role that the U.S. and other wealthy countries played in contributing to climate change.
Today’s Birthdays: World Golf Hall of Famer Gary Player is 87. Country singer Bill Anderson is 85. Actor Barbara Bosson is 83. Actor Robert Foxworth is 81. Country singer-humorist Kinky Friedman is 78. Actor Jeannie Berlin is 73. Music producer David Foster is 73. Actor Belita Moreno is 73. Country singer-songwriter-producer Keith Stegall is 68. Country singer Lyle Lovett is 65. Actor Rachel Ticotin is 64. Apple CEO Tim Cook is 62. Actor Helene Udy is 61. Pop singer-musician Mags Furuholmen (a-ha) 60. Rock singer Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 60. Rock musician Rick Allen (Def Leppard) is 59. Country singer “Big Kenny” Alphin (Big and Rich) is 59. Singer Sophie B. Hawkins is 58. Rapper Willie D (Geto Boys) is 56. Country musician Dale Wallace (Emerson Drive) is 53. Actor Toni Collette is 50. Actor-talk show host Jenny McCarthy is 50. Actor David Berman is 49. Actor Aishwarya Rai (ash-WAHR’-ee-ah reye) is 49. Rock singer Bo Bice is 47. Actor Matt Jones is 41. Actor Natalia Tena is 38. Actor Penn Badgley is 36. Actor Max Burkholder is 25. Actor-musician Alex Wolff is 25.
[ad_2]