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THEATER: As Steve On Broadway notes, Chicago’s stellar Steppenwolf Theater Company, which launched the careers of Gary Sinise and Little Johnny Malkapee, is back on Broadway for the first time since 2001, when their production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won the Tony for Best Revival. This time they’ve delivered playwright Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County, and after reading today’s rave reviews, you can count on more Tonys flying back to the Windy...

The Knicks have a bad history of getting robbed when it comes to the Windy City and Eddy Curry (forget all their history with the Jordan-era Bulls). First, the Knicks traded for Eddy Curry in a deal that also gave the Bulls the 9th pick in the 2007 draft (they picked Joakim Noah) and early Saturday morning Curry was robbed at gunpoint in his suburban Chicago home. Three masked intruders tied up Curry, his wife and an employee with duct tape and robbed the home of jewelry and cash.

Your overstuffed kitchen drawer of take-out menus is minuscule compared to the menus Daniel Rayas collected over a four month period. Newsday has a fantastic profile of the Texan grandfather who moved to New York City to help care for his newborn granddaughter and found a flexible part-time job that has taken him all over the city. Looking to make some money to pay for room and board, Rayas responded to an ad on Craigslist offering cash for collected menus. It was placed by online eatery guide Allmenus.com, and they put him to work immediately, offering $2 per menu collected.

(At The Wired Rave Awards, by an interested bystander at flickr)

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost.

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it.

So, our siblings over in the Windy City recently pointed out a really creepy set of businesses that we had kinda hoped only existed on Veronica Mars.

There's a fun article in this weeks Villager on the growing trend of Green roofs coming to the New York, something our friends over in the Windy CIty know all about.

Trader Joe's, a store which incidentally maybe, possibly, might actually be on its way to Gotham?

You may remember the "pickle guy" from Crossing Delancey -- a nice, somewhat nebbishy guy, picked out for the protagonist by an old-school Jewish matchmaker, hired by her grandmother. Well, the pickle man has been revamped, revised, and reincarnated, this time in the form of Rick Field. Rick, profiled in the New York Times, is also single, and could perhaps benefit from a little matchmaking himself:

Mr. Field is a 41-year-old bachelor with a head of hair that might benefit from its own global positioning system. He intermittently enjoys cooking, wears pants repaired by his mother, makes flowers out of tomatillo husks and has written at least one song about a cow. He is also a graduate of Andover and Yale, an aspect of his biography that one might be inclined to gloss over had he chosen any number of professions, but what Mr. Field has elected to do with his life is make pickles.

And make pickles he does. He sells about ten varieties of Rick's Picks at the Union Square Greenmarket, at local gourmet outlets like Murray's and Artisanal, and on his website. And they are award-winning pickles -- he has won 10 ribbons at the Rosendale International Pickle Festival since 2001. The varieties go well beyond the traditional cucumber pickle, and include Windy City Wasabeans, green beans in a soy-wasabi brine, Phat Beets, beets in a rosemary brine, and Pepi Pep Peps, pickled roasted pepper. Go say hello to Rick at the Greenmarket -- you may not find romance, but you might just fall in love with his pickles.

So, welcome, Chicagoist! Gothamist is learning so much about Chicago that we'll be able to enjoy our stopovers at O'Hare that much more. And we're also digging the Chicagoist logo, designed by Sam; Chicago's buildings look like aliens and/or slugs - cool! Plus, many thanks to Neil Epstein, who did all the technology heavy-lifting.

It's tied with a $1 coupon for one of Quizno's toasty subs. Quizno's locations in New York City.