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Evening Wine, Chocolate and Tea Experience

Oct. 1, 2008 – Ongoing

City Food Tours

 

This 3-hour tasting adventure in Center City is sure to tantalize your tastebuds and leave you feeling warm and happy inside. With less than 20 minutes of total walking and well over 2 hours indoors enjoying some tasty treats, this culinary adventure begins with a made-to-order panini at the first tour stop and gets better from there!  Tastings include a variety of exotic loose-leaf teas at Tbar, decadent chocolates at Naked Chocolate Café and a flight of 3 fine wines at Tavern 17.

In addition to the light meal and special pre-arranged tastings at three of Philadelphia's best specialty food shops and restaurants, every tour includes an informative, fun, and interactive discussion about how the foods you sample are made and how they have shaped history, and a behind-the-scenes view of the industry through the eyes of proprietors and chefs, and the opportunity to ask any questions you have informative tips about what to look for in truly great food.

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Meat Free Mondays

 Celebrities including the McCartneys (pictured), Sophie Ellis Bextor and Little Britain Go Meat Free on Monday, to help protect the environment.

 

The famous faces agree that there is an important reason to skip a meat meal every now and then, and it’s not because they can’t stomach the natural order of life, it’s because meat farming is playing all kinds of havoc with our environment.

‘I think many of us feel helpless in the face of environmental challenges, and it can be hard to know how to sort through the advice about what we can do to make a meaningful contribution to a cleaner, more sustainable, healthier world. Having one designated meat free day a week is actually a meaningful change that everyone can make, that goes to the heart of several important political, environmental and ethical issues all at once,’ Paul McCartney says in support of Meat Free Monday.

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Taste of Polonia



Sept. 4-7

September 4 : 5 p.m. – 11 p.m.

September 5 : 12 p.m. – 11 p.m.

September 6 : 12 p.m. – 11 p.m.

September 7 : 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Price: $6-$7; $3 for seniors; free for kids under age 12Event Phone Number: 773-777-8898

Copernicus CenterNeighborhood: Jefferson Park5216 W. Lawrence Ave. 

Chicago, IL 60630773-777-8898

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Chicago Jazz Festival



Sept. 4-6



When: September 4 : 11 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

September 5 : 11 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

September 6 : 11 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Price: FreeEvent Phone Number: 312-744-3315

Grant ParkNeighborhood: Grant Park Museums300 S. Columbus Drive 

Chicago, IL 60604312-744-3370

The city's longest-running lakefront music festival features local, national and international performers on several stages.



Friday


• Jazz on Jackson Stage

12 p.m.:  Ernie Adams Trio with Richie Cole

1:10 p.m.: Fareed Haque and the Flat Earth Ensemble

2:20 p.m.: Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown 

3:30 p.m.: Esperanza Spalding

 

• Young Jazz Lions Stage

12 p.m.: The Civic and Arts Jazz Ensemble

1 p.m..: Morgan Park Academy Jazz Ensemble

2 p.m.: St. Charles High School Jazz Ensemble

3 p.m.: Columbia College Jazz Ensemble

 

• Jazz and Heritage Stage

12:30 p.m.: Dudley Owens Quintet

2 p.m.: Diane Delin Quartet

3:30 p.m.: Bob Seeley and Bob Baldori 

           

• Petrillo Music Shell

5 p.m.: Jeff Parker Quartet

6 p.m: The Trio featuring Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell

7:10 p.m.: Madeleine Peyroux

8:30 p.m.: Gonzalo Rubalcaba Quintet


Saturday

• Jazz on Jackson Stage

12 p.m.: Greg Ward's Fitted Shards

1:10 p.m.: Dan Cray Trio with Geof Bradfield

2:20 p.m.: Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Strings

3:30 p.m.: Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble 

 

• Young Jazz Lions Stage

12 p.m.: The Jazz Institute of Chicago's Jazz Ambassadors

1 p.m.: Whitney Young Magnet Jazz Ensemble

2 p.m.: Wheeling High School Jazz Ensemble

3 p.m.: DePaul University Jazz Ensemble

 

• Jazz and Heritage Stage

12:30 p.m.: Red Rose Ragtime Jazz Band 

2 p.m.: Art of the Solo with William Parker

3:30 p.m.: Tribute to Benny Goodman featuring Eric Schneider

 

• Petrillo Music Shell 

5 p.m.: 80th Birthday Jam with Fred Anderson

6 p.m.: Amina Figarova Sextet

7:10 p.m.: William Parker presents The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield

8:30 p.m.: Dave Holland Big Band


Sunday

• Jazz on Jackson Stage

12 p.m.: Mike Allemana's Come Sunday

1:10 p.m.: Ben Paterson and Yoko Noge

2:20 p.m.: James Falzone's KLANG: The Goodman Project

3:30 p.m.: New Apartment Jam with Von Freeman

  

• Young Jazz Lions Stage

12 p.m.: The Jazz Improv Collective

1 p.m.: Lincoln Park H.S. Jazz ensemble with Ari Brown

2 p.m.: Evanston High School Jazz ensemble with Junior Mance

3 p.m.: Young Jazz Lions Jam Session

 

• Jazz and Heritage Stage

12:30 p.m.: Kevin Nabors Quintet

2 p.m .: Percussion Discussion with Art Burton

3:30 p.m.: Kelly Brand Quintet

• Petrillo Music Shell

5 p.m.: Archie Shepp Quartet featuring Willie Pickens, Avery Sharpe and Ronnie Burrage 

6 p.m.: Tribute to Art Tatum featuring Buddy DeFranco and Johnny O’Neal

7:10 p.m.: Dee Alexander

8:30 p.m.: The Arthur Hoyle Orchestra

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Women of Color Networking Party

Sun, July 5

  • Where:Dragon's Den

  • Address:435 Esplanade Ave New Orleans, LA   Map

  • Cost:TBD


Something to See Entertainment presents a networking event featuring the hottest showcase of live musical talent and the biggest business minded entrepreneurs New Orleans has to offer. These entrepreneurs provide viable cultural information, products, and services that can enrich the community.

 

        3pm  Networking participants 

3pm-6pm  Networking Mixer 

6pm-8pm  Soft networking party 

10pm-until- Networking Party(featuring live entertainment* and food) 

*Jazz, R&B, Rap, Reggae 

For any questions or concerns, please contact Effram Hills at 504-281-7593,effram37@yahoo.com or Octavia Bolds at 504-914-9254, obolds001@gmail.com

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What's in a name

What's in a nameä This restaurant, the oldest under the same ownership in the city of Boston, doesn't need one. Since 1917 when it opened, catering to fishermen returning from a day at sea, the no-name restaurant has served great food in its little corner of the Fish Pier.

I found the no-name restaurant completely by accident. It was in 1980 or so, and I was in Boston on a business trip. I figured the Fish Pier ought to have someplace good to eat, so I wandered around there, and noticed some people in what appeared to be a private club–people who were obviously having a great time. My interest piqued, I wandered in, not sure if I was crashing a party…of course in those days I didn't care!

Turned out, I'd happened upon a wonderful restaurant, and to this day the broiled scrod he had that night is the best I ever had. I wasn't too disappointed that I was actually allowed to be there, because the food was great and the locals who hung out there made me feel welcome. I've only had the opportunity to return to Boston a couple of times since but the no name restaurant is somewhere I go each time.

If you haven't tried it, you owe it to yourself to check it out. And if you have–you are probably already making plans to go back!

This story contributed by Party Digest's Fort Lauderdale correspondent Chuck Gregory

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Kane County Flea Market

Oct thru Dec

When: October 31 : 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.Every 1st Saturday of the month 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. (ends December 6) 

Every 1st Sunday of the month 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. (ends December 6) 

Except November 7

Price: $5. Free for children 12 and underEvent Phone Number: 630-377-2252

Kane County Fairgrounds525 S. Randall Rd. 

St. Charles, IL 60174

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The Skinny

From the director of cult classics PUNKS and NOAH’S ARC comes the much-anticipated third feature film from Patrik-Ian Polk: THE SKINNY, a sharply scripted comedy about a group of four young, black, gay men (Magnus, Sebastian, Kyle, Joey) and their lesbian best friend (Langston).

The Skinny

Patrik-Ian Polk

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Max Maven Thinking in Person

“A NEW FORM OF PARTICIPATORY THEATRE.” — People Magazine The New York Times said MAX MAVEN THINKING IN PERSON is a “category-defying mind-reading show that veers into CONCEPTUAL ART.” More than just the world’s foremost mind-reader, Max Maven brings a new form of participatory theatre to the world involving hundreds of minds… including yours. Audiences from Russia to England to Argentina to Japan (yes, he speaks fluent Japanese) have been ASTONISHED and ENTERTAINED by Maven’s bizarre brand of MENTAL MAGIC. Armed with an acerbic wit and what the Los Angeles Times called “CHARISMATIC ANIMAL MAGNETISM,” Max explores a wide variety of topics from abstract painting to Kabuki theatre, from theology to higher mathematics. The Chicago Tribune, called it “WONDERFULLY ESOTERIC.” Audiences in more than two-dozen countries agree. So don’t miss your opportunity to be dazzled by the NEW YORK DEBUT of MAX MAVEN THINKING IN PERSON. It’s Magic, Mystery and Mentalism to the MAX! And it’s an evening you’ll never forget.

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