Results tagged “rachaelray”

It's another big week for Oprah. Oprah has a new reality show in the works. She's planning a film version of the stage version of the film version of the book "The Color Purple." She went to the premiere of her movie, "The Great Debaters" with Denzel, and best of all, Oprah's been fugged.

Oprah has been doing everything in her colossal and terrifyingly formidable power to see that Obama is elected, but now she's taking it up a notch by going on the campaign trail with him. While she won't be offering everyone in Iowa a new car, she will be stopping there in the first week of December, as well as in South Carolina and New Hampshire. Tickets for each of the four stops (two in Iowa,...

While the mention of the word "oil" can often bring about heated debates on rising prices and the war in Iraq, that’s not the case at Old Town Oil, which specializes in 100-percent extra virgin olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars. This sliver of a store, located in the heart of Old Town, quietly opened three months ago and is the brainchild of four foodie brothers. After various trips around Europe, sampling the quality olive...

We at Chicagoist are suspending our policy of trying not to add more momentum to Rachael Ray's unstoppable takeover of the United States. (About the only thing that would kill it at this point would be a leaked Internet video involving sheep, salad tongs and some damn good reasons for that insidious grin.) Ms. Ray is hooking up with Delta Airlines in order to promote seven new daily flights between Midway Airport and LaGuardia, raising...

Happy Holidays! Chances are, you're reading this the day after Christmas, back at your day job after all-too-short a holiday, and the last thing you want from us is stuff about the holidays. But that's just too bad. Because, see, here in the Ist-a-verse, we do things ahead of time. It might be December 26 for you, but that's what you get for not checking your Favorite Local Blog on Christmas Eve. Austinist is...

We’ve heard of one person waiting in line at Borders for five hours for a glimpse of Amy Sedaris the other week. And while we wouldn’t dare question Sedaris’ national notoriety, we’re going to step out on a limb and say that it probably doesn’t compare to Rachael Ray’s. With that in mind, you may want to leave the house a couple (8) hours early for Ray’s book signing at Borders tomorrow. We turned our...

If you really think about it, most of the aldermen in Chicago don't do much. They'll make a stink for ten hours in a City Council meeting about how much they hate this or that, or how another street should be named after the guy who founded the Billy Goat Tavern, but in the end, it adds up to them raking in a city salary for being incredibly long-winded. The reason why people care (or, at least, should care) about who they have as an alderman is because they have the power to give jobs to people in their wards. The people who do these jobs, in turn, affect the voters' daily lives, etc.

With such a proliferation of food- and cooking-focused blogs and web sites out there, some days it's all Chicagoist can do to get to a handful of them to keep up. However, as is the case with the industry itself, the more the merrier. So in the same way we're always stoked to find a new approach to duck breast, we're equally as happy to find a blog with a different twist.

Here at the Chicagoist HQ we've been spending the last couple days wondering if there's anything Oprah can't do. Right now we wouldn't even bat an eye if she healed the sick by touching them, found a cure for cancer or raised our long-lost childhood pets from the dead (we miss Tom the Hampster & our bunny Hops!). Ok. So maybe those things are a bit of a stretch, but in between forgiving Hermes, helping hurricane victims and redesigning her book club, Ms. Winfrey has also given Rachael Ray a new show and has even helped capture a fugitive.

Attention methamphetamine users and makers: buying your drug supplies is about to get a little harder. Lisa Madigan (secretly hot?) and drug store owners have collaborated on legislation that will go into effect January 1.

» Nigerian e-mail scammers are now using FBI letterhead

, even if our record for an alleged 30-minute meal is just under two hours. It still tasted good.