Class Registration
Chicago’s very own culinary stars The Hearty Boys are celebrating a new endeavor in their food-making careers. The guys-next-door are innovating a new kind of cooking school at 3819 North Broadway called "HBTV," where students can get the inside look at the highs and lows of hosting your own TV food show. "We kind of just tell people it’s the Dan and Steve ride at Disney," says Hearty Boy Steve McDonagh. "Food TV right now is so hot and everyone is so interested to see what it’s about—it’s a great way to goof off and have fun with liquor and knives." The class, which will be more of a fun, interactive private party setup rather than a traditional cooking class, will feature beer, wine and cocktails and light hors d'oeuvres, and it will offer guests a chance to "get their Rachel Ray on for three minutes" in front of a real TV camera. "We’ve gotten people to understand it by calling it ‘cooking karaoke’—the idea that you go to a bar and have drinks and your friend gets up and sings and we all get to laugh at them," McDonagh says. "Instead of singing they’re getting up in front of a TV camera as if they’re hosting a show and still the friends are all laughing at them." Visit www.heartyboys.com for registration info.

Go to Zell
Almost everyone’s up in arms over Sam Zell’s recent comments about being open to selling the naming rights to Wrigley Field, including Lincoln Square Festa T-shirts’ owner Christopher Festa. The avid Cubs fan is fighting the name change and making some cash on the side with his "Keep it… Wrigley" T-shirt campaign, which launched from his shop last Friday. Festa has already sold a hundred shirts to Wrigley Field advocates like himself. "We just wanted to help people—the point of the shirt is that it’s not just a cool design and not just a cool slogan, it’s to help people show their loyalty and show their feelings," Festa says. "I think this is really a special situation and if they leave it alone, it’ll make everyone more happy and prosperous in the long run…I think that the owners of the team—whoever they are now or in near future—are meddling with primeval forces that create the magic and aura of the Wrigley experience. They are alienating people on an emotional level for changing the name."

(2008-03-18)

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