June 2010

June 2010

June City Guide 2010 Volume 35 Number 6   Features Sausages About Town Our beloved Racing Sausages don’t let their, uh, top-heaviness get in the way. They just go with the flow, whether it’s a pie at LuLu or a day of browsing fine art. By Dan Zaits Hard-Luck Heroes In the early ’40s, the Milwaukee Chicks baseball team tore up the field, but was hardly a fan favorite. Their story and others from our pro-baseball past. By Cliff Saunders Miller Park Field Pass Bernie Brewer to Bob Uecker, out must-read for ballpark trivia buffs. By Evan Solochek The Boys…

June City
Guide 2010
Volume 35
Number 6

 

Features

Sausages About Town
Our beloved
Racing Sausages don’t let their, uh, top-heaviness get in the way. They just go
with the flow, whether it’s a pie at LuLu or a day of browsing fine art.
By Dan Zaits

Hard-Luck
Heroes
In the early
’40s, the Milwaukee Chicks baseball team tore up the field, but was hardly a
fan favorite. Their story and others from our pro-baseball past.
By Cliff
Saunders

Miller Park
Field Pass
Bernie
Brewer to Bob Uecker, out must-read for ballpark trivia buffs.
By Evan
Solochek

The Boys of Summer
Sweet dreams
are made of …Ryan, Prince, Yovani, etc.
By Nick
Bullock

Guide to
Galleries
Venues where
art is truly the focus.
By Paul
Kosidowski

Ripeness Is All
Crouched in
a berry patch, face buried in a tangle of vines, hands smudged with dirt.
Summer captured in a crate of pick-your-own produce.
By Jim
Hazard

Rock Around the Clock
OMG, my
totally favorite band is playing at the Pabst! Before you get stoked, learn the
highs and lows of our local concert venues.
By Kevin
Kosterman

Patio
Panache
Feeling
cooped up, after nine months of dining indoors? A plein-air table awaits.
By Ann
Christenson

 

Departments

Outfront
Sausage for
the soul.
By Bruce
Murphy

Mail
Airy
correspondence

Events
Such staff
as dreams are made of…from a new theater company, Summerfest’s best, meaty
Mahler, and other summery sights and sounds.

Insider
The old ball
game
A nostalgic
return.

H2O Obsessed
Gushing
facts about water

All-A-Twitter
Brevity, of
the soul wit?

Road
Warriors
Cycling
sensations

Do you
Abide?
Big Lebowski
fans unity.

Culinary
close-ups
Food TV
loves MKE.

 

Health
How to keep
your brain and body from going to mush this summer.
By Caroline
Goyette

Dining
Find a
smoke-free Italian join on the West Side with a fish fry in five seconds flat.
We’re timing you.
Edited by
Ann Christenson

Endgame
True confession:
Our new assistant editor renounces her wicked, pro-Chicago ways.
By Cristina
Daglas