Go, Speed Weekend, go.
FROM PERKS
These are a bunch of football helmets autographed by great players like Tom Brady, Odell Beckham Jr., Reggie White and the Mannings. And this is us telling you that they could be sitting in your living room one game day soon. It’s also us name-dropping.
EAR TO THE GROUND
Ear Taxi is a six-day contemporary classical music festival, during which you can take a date to…
—A classical composition from indie-rock band Tortoise.
—A superstar soprano’s concert of songs inspired by poet Carl Sandburg.
—An electronic fable about solitude.
Scratch that last one.
AMERICAN BEAUTY
To hell with the weekend. You want brunch now. And you’re going to get it at Hutch American Café, the new all-day, every-day bruncheteria in River North that’ll sate your cravings for fried chicken and biscuits, tenderloin benedicts and Bloody Marys whenever they may arise. Fair.
WILLOW AND BEHOLD
Willow Room is a swanky new lounge near Steppenwolf where you can enjoy a glass of wine and eat duck prosciutto and fine Wisconsin cheeses. Maybe you’ll go before a show. Maybe you’ll go after a show. Maybe you’ll go on a random Tuesday. Random Tuesdays work, too.
WESTWORLD
Bad news: Notre’s Andersonville shop is temporarily closed. Good news: They’ve got a spartan new West Loop outpost with a gallery of shoes (read: Horween leather boots) and other fall-forward items like garment-dyed bombers and A.P.C. denim. Not news: Your attitude toward fall-forward items.
ENCASED YOU MISSED IT
This Sunday, the Polish-Korean sausage pros at Kimski/Maria’s are hosting a sausage battle royale. Three sausages (from Publican Quality Meats, Haymarket and Kimski) will vie for your vote. There’ll also be a sausage-eating contest and a relay race with a sausage baton. As if there weren’t enough sausage involved already.
Sam Eichner likes literature, reality television and his twin cats equally. He has consistently been told he needs a shave since he started growing facial hair.
