Blommer Chocolate Company A city is a place of sensations (some less sensational than others, as we well know). Sound, vision, touch: but how often outside of a pissed-in alley or a badly ventilated restaurant do we savor the city for its stink? Creeping up on little cocoa feet is the Blommer Chocolate cloud, an emanation of pure cocoa and fine sugar that will invisibly announce itself at the most unpredictable times across downtown, or more likely, River North and just west. It’s particularly piquant on a frigid day when the bitter wind is assaulting the ice in your eyes and suddenly, you find yourself as one with the universe of comfort, embraced by that which you cannot see but only adore.
600 West Kinzie Street (factory and store) (312) 226-7700 blommer.com
Dime Stories: RNC Night Three: The Volitional Blindness of the G.O.P. starring Mike Pence, Company Man While news, big news, was breaking all across America yesterday regarding the continued violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the murders of two Black Lives Matter protesters in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, you wouldn't have known it from watching the third installment of the Republican National Convention.
Today in the Culture: March 26, 2021 | Good news/bad news in books | Trib nixes better offer for company FILM & TV Rebooting a shoot about rebooted humans CW is rebooting the 2004-2007 USA Network series "The 4400" and filming in Chicago. Here's the description: "In 'The 4400,' 4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no…
