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Atkins-friendly, low-carb meals are the bread and butter (so to speak) of most new club restaurants. Ethnic cuisine is catching on too. Typhoon, inside Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club, has become such a popular sushi spot that it does great business with both club members and guests who walk in off the street. With a menu that includes healthy versions of such Louisiana favorites as spicy crawfish and Cajun-style gumbo, chef Marc Gilberti serves about 200 diners a day at the Elmwood Fitness Center in New Orleans, earning $100,000 a month for his club. Like...
...after losing his job in the dotcom bust, Kurth decided to leave Chicago and follow his passion. Instead of taking another corporate job, he ended up in Portland working in marketing for a Sonoma County--based vintner. "I realized that lots of people would like to do that sort of thing but aren't ready to risk their security in search of a dream," says Kurth...
...single bid - which might not prove that votes can't be bought, but did earn a reprimand from his country's Department for Constitutional Affairs. An Illinois student who offered his entire high school for sale on the site got a little more interest. The listing, said the Chicago Tribune, promised to throw in the school's chess team if offers topped $5. It garnered more than a dozen bids, the highest at $14,000, before the student declared the auction a prank. School officials, in a surprise move, got the joke and didn't punish...
...over its long weekend. But the Encores! people are not averse to making a commercial buck by fleshing out their shows for the wider Broadway audience. Perhaps once a season, talk surfaces of a possible transfer (for "Strike Up the Band," "Hair," "Carnival," none of which occurred). "Chicago" did make that move, in just six months in1996, to the joy and profit of all involved...
...Saturday night performance I ran into Harvey Weinstein, the Miramax Films co-chairman who has backed such Broadway shows as "The Producers," "Sweet Smell of Success," Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme," and who would win an Oscar for Best Picture when he produced the 2002 movie version of "Chicago" (directed by Kathleen Marshall's brother Rob). Weinstein told me he might be interested in a mainstem transfer for "Wonderful Town." Three years later, it happened...