The following was a chapter penned for the guidebook UNDERGROUND CHICAGO 2003 –
Clublife
Play your night right, and clubbing in Chicago ought to be a religious experience. This is, after all, the birthplace of house music, named for the beat spun by DJ Frankie Knuckles at the long-defunct, but still legendary, club The Warehouse in the [...]
March 10, 2009
Categories: Chicago, music, published . . Author: daschneider . Comments: Leave a Comment
Designer clubs
Rocco Laudizio talks about Sound-Bar and the making of Chicago nightlife
David Schneider
There were hundreds of people on Sound-Bar’s dance floor a couple of Friday nights ago, all off their heads and delirious, belting out the words to Green Velvet’s techno-funk classic “La La Land,” and not one of them [...]
January 7, 2008
Categories: Chicago, Newcity, architecture/design, music . Tags: Chicago, Chicago nightlife, clubbing, cocktails, Coleridge, electronic music, house music, interior design, nightclub, Rocco Laudizio, Romantic poetry, Romanticism, Slick Design & Manufacturing, Sound-Bar, Soundbar . Author: daschneider . Comments: Leave a Comment
Herbivore heaven
Grazing at Shawn McClain’s new Green Zebra
David Schneider
I am an unrepentant carnivore, heir to the sins of the flesh. Around the familial dinner table, “sucking the marrow out of life” wasn’t Transcendentalist philosophy, but practical instruction. I can actually feel my canines descend slightly when contemplating [...]
December 22, 2007
Categories: Chicago, Newcity, dining, published . Tags: Chicago, cuisine, fine dining, Green Zebra, healthy eating, heirloom tomatoes, organic food, puns, restaurant, review, vegetarianism, wordplay . Author: daschneider . Comments: Leave a Comment
