In Chicagoland this month, there are pigs”you can watch … and other pigs you can eat. Don’t get them mixed up!
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A whole chicken cooked upright with an open can of beer stuffed up its hindquarters, beer-can chicken has become a staple of summer cookouts. Happy Earth Day! Today is the 40th anniversary of the first hippie-inspired, national environmental consciousness raising in 1970. Here are a few things you can do to mark the day. Drink a Treetini. Porchlight Music Theatre’s “Into the Woods” may not have the dazzling dancing of the hot new show downtown, but it does have all the brilliance of Stephen Sondheim’ Tony Award-winning score and James Lapine’s delightful book, a cast of lovely singers and a fairy-tale plot that’s scarcely more of a fantasy than “Billy Elliot’s.” At 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, technology expert Charles Valauskas will talk about the World’s Columbian Exposition and its firsts in food and food technology.
Celebrate the ‘Celtic Muse’ at Davenport’s, Wicker Park, 8 p.m. tonight and Friday, March 19, $15 plus two-drink minimum. Gillian Kelly and Claire Bigley perform Irish favorites such as “The Nightingale,” “Finnegan’s Wake,” and “The Rising of the Moon.” $3 Harps and Guinness, too. Visit the Irish American Heritage Center, Irving Park, through March 20. Events begin [...] What it is: After shamrocks and leprechauns, the most distinctive icon of Ireland in the world may be a glass of Guinness stout, a rich, dark beer made with roasted, malted barley and hops, topped with a creamy white head. The New Orleans Saints take on the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday, Feb. 7. You could stay home and watch it on your dinky TV, but then you’d have to fix your own food and drinks. Here are some great alternatives around Chicago and the suburbs. Murphy’s Bleachers Super Bowl Pig Roast, [...] Brighten your dull winter evenings at these upcoming winter brew-hahas. Smoke Daddy Weekly Beer Tastings, Wicker Park, 7–9 p.m. Tuesdays, no cover. So you’re all over super premium, micro-brewed, all-natural, artisan-crafted, organic, real draft ale. What’s next? |
 
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