When Betsy Simson, long-time owner of Jerry’s/Corner Cooks in Winnetka, sought to sell the business in the fall of 2014, Chef Steve Leviton stepped in. Having spent the past few decades cooking in the kitchens of Kiki’s Bistro in Chicago and Highland Park’s Exmoor Country Club, as well as management stints for various catering outfits, […]
Goodman Theatre’s world premiere of “The Upstairs Concierge” is a play about The Hotelman Arms, a luxury boutique hotel in Chicago that serves every waking need (no matter how ridiculous) of each celebrity guest, and its upstairs concierge, Ella Elizondo, who tries desperately to put her degree in “Comprehension of Contemporary Conciergery” to the best […]
Scene One. Marie Antoinette and her ladies drink tea and nibble on decadent French pastries as they walk back and forth across the golden “Hall of Mirrors” and chat frivolously about fashion, gardens and men. So begins Director Robert O’Hara’s modern and unconventional production of “Marie Antoinette” at Steppenwolf Theatre. Playwright David Adjmi intends to […]