Lisa E Freedman, My Journal Through Life, is the Home Base & Blog for LF Media Ink, a Boutique PR/Marketing Company specialized in the Arts, Entertainment & Travel Industries. Enjoy!
Lisa E Freedman, My Journal Through Life, is the Home Base & Blog for LF Media Ink, a Boutique PR/Marketing Company specialized in the Arts, Entertainment & Travel Industries. Enjoy!
A polished River North steakhouse, and the perfect place to catch up with family over dinner Every great Chicago itinerary needs at least one proper steakhouse evening — and this one came courtesy of our Chicago cousins, who gave us several possibilities to choose from. We landed on RPM Steak, tucked into River North near the river and the Magnificent Mile, for an evening that turned out to be every bit as polished and cosmopolitan as its...
The architect-turned-dealer who helped put Chicago's art scene on the international map I have a particular fondness for dealers whose personal story is every bit as interesting as the artists on their walls. Richard Gray is exactly that kind of figure — a Chicago institution whose gallery, founded in 1963, helped shape the city's entire relationship with international art, and whose fingerprints turn out to be on more of this Chicago trip...
A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to where the city's gallery scene actually lives For someone accustomed to New York's famously concentrated gallery districts, Chicago takes a little more effort — and rewards it. Between the museums, the public sculpture, and Richard Gray's gallery just off Michigan Avenue, this trip kept circling back to one realization: Chicago's art world doesn't live in a single neighborhood the way it once did. It's...
From a world-class international exposition to neighborhood art walks, the dates worth knowing before you book your trip. Our timing on the Magnificent Mile Spring Art Festival turned out to be pure luck. But once I realized how many art fairs and exhibitions Chicago hosts throughout the year, I went down a rabbit hole - and discovered a calendar substantial enough to warrant planning a trip around. For an art lover, Chicago isn't simply a city...
Sixty juried artists, world-class storefronts, and a happy bit of trip timing Part of the pleasure of traveling without overplanning every single day is stumbling into something wonderful simply by being in the right place at the right time. The Magnificent Mile Spring Art Festival, held this year on May 30th and 31st, landed squarely within our visit — and turned what might have been a simple stroll past the luxury storefronts on Michigan...
An easy, unfussy dinner before Second City, in the heart of Chicago’s Old Town Not every meal on a trip like this needs to be an occasion. Before heading into Second City for Pandemonium, Please Hold, we wanted something quick, casual, and close by — and Old Town Pub, just a short walk down Wells Street from the theater, turned out to be exactly the right call. A Neighborhood Fixture Old Town Pub has held its spot in the heart of the Old...
Sixty-five years of launching comedy legends, and a front-row seat to the 114th Mainstage Revue, Pandemonium, Please Hold After spending part of the trip at Billy Goat Tavern, retracing the steps of the SNL cast that made it famous, it felt only right to follow that thread back to where so many of those careers actually began. The Second City, tucked into Old Town, isn't simply a comedy club. It's the institution most responsible for shaping...
A corner of Paris at street level, right inside our own hotel Some of the best meals on a trip happen by sheer convenience, and Pierrot Gourmet, The Peninsula Chicago's own street-level café at the corner of Rush and Superior, was exactly that kind of happy discovery. After a stay built around the hotel's sky lobby and its more formal dining rooms, it was a genuine pleasure to find that the hotel offers an entirely different register of...
Ivy on the walls, a hand-turned scoreboard, and one of the last truly old-fashioned nights in American sports Throughout the planning stages for our Chicago trip, Paul's biggest request for the visit was to see a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. We were fortunate enough to book tickets for a game there on our last night in Chicago. An avid baseball fan, Paul spoke endlessly about the significance of Wrigley Field, and why it mattered, along with a...
Cheezborger! Cheezborger! No fries, cheeps! — the Chicago dive that became an SNL legend Some Chicago stops are about white tablecloths and tasting menus. Others begin with a line you’ve been quoting for decades. For my partner, Paul, Billy Goat Tavern was the latter. Long before we ever planned this Chicago trip, he knew the place through Saturday Night Live — the relentless rhythm of “Cheezborger! Cheezborger! No fries, cheeps! No...
