At the Cozy Cafe, Home Cooking Is on the Range
A tiny storefront diner that serves only breakfast and lunch, seven days a week, the Cozy Cafe lives up to its intimate name.
Month: February 1995
On Call: Supporting Cast Keeps `ER’ Running Frenetically
On the hit NBC drama “ER,” which takes place at the fictional County Memorial General Hospital in Chicago, there is a slew of secondary roles that flesh out the lives of the primary six (George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Eriq LaSalle, Julianna Margulies, Sherry Stringfield and Noah Wylie).
A Hot Dog Stand With the Works
Have you ever had one of those weeks when you just had too much to do but not enough time to get everything done? It was for just such times that the owners of Scatchell’s designed their strip mall in Cicero, which includes a pizzeria, car wash and laundromat.
Murmurs Sing It Loud And Clear
Anyone who’s been through a breakup can identify with the Murmurs’ hit single. But though most assume the single, “You Suck,” is about an ex-boyfriend, vocalist Heather Grody says it’s about a mentor who turned on Grody and Leisha Hailey.
Peel on Over for Some Tasty Thai Food
One afternoon, a friend and I were trolling for food after catching a matinee at the Music Box Theatre. Just a couple of blocks away from the cinema, we saw a quaint restaurant called the Banana Leaf Kitchen with a sign promising noodles, fried rice and curry.
The Art of Persuasion: `Minbo’ Proves Words are Mightier Than the Sword
The yakuza – the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia – has achieved notoriety of romantic proportions in films such as “Black Rain” and “The Yakuza.” But in his brilliantly clever “Minbo – Or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion,” director-writer Juzu Itami presents the group as nothing more than a bunch of thugs who take pride in chopping off bits of each other’s pinkies and think nothing of hiding cockroaches in food to blackmail restaurants for hush money.