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Where Irish Hospitality means that pours and portions are a little more generous. Crowd-pleasing menu selections are varied and unique and the answer Ida,ways O'YES!! Bennigan's American Fare, Irish Hospitality!
CITY: Elgin
Denny's - Carpentersville
Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week!
CITY: Carpentersville
Buckinghams Steak House
Steak house located in Grand Victoria Casino.
CITY: Elgin
Great American Grill, Hilton Garden Inn
Casual dining from hamburgers and sandwiches to steaks and seafood.
CITY: St. Charles
The Corner Chef
Corner Chef turns a casual meal into a special occasion. Our gourmet delivery menus offers a variety of boxed meals, warm and cold buffets and an assortment of hors d'oeuvres. We specialize in fresh, delicious food delivered on time.
CITY: Evanston
Kama Indian Bistro
In an unassuming storefront in downtown La Grange lies a sleek, sexy Indian restaurant that's far from ordinary. Sink back into comfortable cushions with relaxing upbeat music; enjoy the romantic atmosphere and escape from the everyday with food, drink and good friends in this Michelin recognized restaurant.
CITY: La Grange
Nabuki is a contemporary Japanese restaurant and sushi bar located in historic downtown Hinsdale offering a variety of traditional and innovative dishes.
CITY: Hinsdale
Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites
A five star hotel located about 20 minutes from O'Hare Airport and 40 minutes from downtown Chicago. Joseph's Lounge and Bennigans Restaurant located within the facility.
CITY: Elgin
Charcoal Oven
Charcoal Oven offers a wide variety of fresh fish, steaks, and Greek specialites daily.
CITY: Skokie
Le Peep Pancake House & Grill
All your breakfast favorites in a relaxing and comfortable environment.
CITY: Evanston
El Molino
Serving great Mexican food.
CITY: Carpentersville
Victoria's Gifts
Grand Victoria Casino souvenirs, unique gifts, clothing and jewelry.
CITY: Elgin
Charlie Fox's Di Fantastico
Premium carry-out & pizza delivery. Pasta, sandwiches, and more. Full service restaurant.
CITY: St. Charles
Staybridge Suites Chicago/Oakbrook Terrace
The preferred, upscale all-suite hotel in the Oak Brook area! Free bountiful hot breakfast buffet daily. Free light dinner entrée Tuesday thru Thursday evenings with free beer, wine and sodas. Free internet access throughout hotel. Free local shuttle.
CITY: Oakbrook Terrace
Khyber Pass
Established in 1995, a culinary passage through the land of exotic spices and aromas. Received "Four Forks", the highest rating from the Chicago Tribune. Strongly recommended by Sun Times, Chicago Magazine, Where Chicago, etc. Live entertainment and bellydancing on weekends. Lunch buffet.
CITY: Oak Park
Prairie Moon
Offering seasonal regional American menu in an award-winning setting with two full bars, outdoor dining, and a large party room in the heart of Evanston. Lunch, dinner, and a late night grill are offered every day, along with breakfast on Sundays.
CITY: Evanston
Chicago Prime Italian
Locally-owned Chicago Prime Italian is a warm & inviting, upscale casual restaurant. Enjoy the bold flavors & simple comforts of classic Italian fare featuring generous portions & fresh ingredients. Steak, veal, chops, fresh seafood & signature Italian dishes are complemented by the wine & cocktail menu. Seasonal outdoor patio.
CITY: Schaumburg
Nuova Italia
Breathtaking dining experience in classic, 160 year old church. Serving authentic Italian food. Dine in & carry out. We also offer catering for all your special occasions.
CITY: St. Charles
Experience sophisticated yet casual, contemporary American dining at Bakersfield, showcasing a wood-fired grill, heated patio, wine room & full bar.
CITY: Westmont
Hyatt Place Chicago/Itasca
Contemporary decor with stylish furnishings including divided living and sleeping areas, two double plush Hyatt Grand Beds™, state-of-the-art media and work center with a 42" flat-panel high-definition television that easily integrates with laptops and other electronic devices, an over-sized Cozy Corner sofa-sleeper, wet/dry bar and bathroom vanity with granite counter tops. Enjoy complimentary hotel-wide WiFi and continental breakfast buffet.
CITY: Itasca
The Glen Club
Come for business, stay for golf. The Glen Club has 21 overnight rooms featuring unique layouts and elegant fixtures including historic photographs from Chicago's famous Golf Clubs. Dine on delicious American fare at "The Grill" or host your corporate events in our elegant ballroom seating up to 230, or our stately meeting rooms. Visit the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame. Designed by renowned golf course architect Tom Fazio, the Glen Club's golf course features rolling terrain with dramatic elevation changes, meandering lakes and streams and stunning vistas.
CITY: Glenview
Taco Diablo
An auténtico Mexican taqueria and cantina with rustic, art filled decor. Located in Downtown Evanston only steps from Pace/Metra/CTA Purple lines. Eat Tacos-Drink Tequila, Buen Provecho!
CITY: Evanston
Tatami Sushi
Whether you seek familiar sushi preparations, traditional Japanese cooking or unique and innovative contemporary cuisine that blends Asian and Western cooking styles, their seasonal cuisine, comfortable décor and knowledgeable service will provide you and your guests a dining experience that is both entirely satisfying and highly memorable. Come experience the creativity of urban Japanese cuisine in a soothing ambience by the day and upbeat atmosphere by night. Although sushi is their forte, there are plenty of cooked entrees and appetizers from the kitchen.
CITY: Glenview
Hansen's Motel
At Hansen's Motel, we offer a wide range of king, queen and double bed rooms. We also offer you the full range of amenities that you would expect in a quality motel.
CITY: Aurora
David L. Pierce Art & History Center
The Aurora Public Art Commission hosts rotating exhibits displaying a full spectrum of innovative arts. The History Center has a collection of photographs, books, maps and other memorabilia. The Museum Shop offers hand-crafted jewelry, pottery and textiles from local artists and Aurora-themed gifts.
CITY: Aurora
Cucina Paradiso
Located off Oak Park's renowned Oak Park Avenue, specializing in classical and modern regional Italian cuisine. Begin your meal with a flavorful antipasto, followed by our famous thin pizzas, pastas, and tempting entrees. Voted by Chicago Magazine as"one of the best new restaurants of the year", and best Italian restaurant in Oak Park by Zagat Publications 2 years in a row. Preferred caterer for the Cheney Mansion and Pleasant Home. Exclusive caterer to 19th Century Club in Oak Park.
CITY: Oak Park
Anyway's Chicago Restaurant & Pub
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Neighborhood restaurant and pub serving classic American fare. The restaurant specializes in banquets from 25 to 75. The bar has been newly remodeled and now offers a screened in porch and an outdoor patio.
CITY: Oakbrook Terrace
Westwood Tavern & Tap
The place to be for a warm and fun atmosphere with good food, cold beer and friendly people. Custom beer taps dispense cold beer right at your table. Beautiful outdoor bar and two fireplaces. Fresh sushi, tacos, great burgers and sandwiches - everything made from scratch including our corn tortillas and our freshly ground burgers.
CITY: Schaumburg
Celtic Knot Public House
An authentic public house with excellent food, well-poured pints and a worldwide wine list. Regular live music includes Bluegrass Mondays, Celtic sessions Tuesdays, afternoon tea Wednesdays and Saturdays; storytelling monthly.
CITY: Evanston
Coaches' Cafe
The perfect place for before, during or after the game. Menu features a variety of entrees, sandwiches and appetizers. Satellite TV in the bar. No better place to watch the game.
CITY: Evanston
Directions in Clothing
Classic clothing with a flair.
CITY: St. Charles
Nancy's Pizza
Award Winning Pizza served in 4 crusts - 2 1/2' stuffed, 1 1/2" stuffed Lite, Original Thin, Super Thin. Also serving Appetizers, Salads, Pasta and Sandwiches. Pick Up - Delivery - Catering. Open Daily 10 AM. Complete menu available.
CITY: Bolingbrook
A small gallery that features unique mid-century pieces. Specialty furniture, lighting, and decor from the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Also offering mid-century art, posters, clocks, and mirrors, as well as quirky accessories.
CITY: Evanston
Las Palmas of Evanston
Come and enjoy delicious authentic Mexican fare at a very reasonable price. Stop by Las Palmas for a taste of Mexico.
CITY: Evanston
Uncle Bub's BBQ Restaurant & Catering
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Uncle Bub's award-winning BBQ is the Western Suburbs' premier barbecue place. Specializing in pig roasts and grill packages, Uncle Bub's caters events of all sizes and themes. Stop into our restaurant to enjoy the Midwest's best BBQ in a casual setting.
CITY: Westmont
Riccardo's Restaurant
Riccardo's Ristorante is a wonderful Italian restaurant with an amazing array of delicious meals. Old-fashioned Italian menu items and daily imaginative specials are sure to please everyone. Menu items are rich and fulfilling. Great place for family get-togethers or grabbing a pizza with friends.
CITY: Schaumburg
PC's Pancake Café
Serving the greatest breakfast or lunch in the southwest burbs. Serving oven baked omelets, oven baked pancakes, the thickest cut bacon and our own special blend of Kona Coffee. We are 1/8 mile east off the I-355 tollway and 127th st interchange. Open daily from 7am-2pm.
CITY: Lemont
Mr. Samurai Steakhouse
Authentic Japanese steakhouse, fresh sushi bar, hibachi grill and bar, tepan-yaki chef prepares right at your table.
CITY: St. Charles
Hilton Orrington/Evanston
This sophisticated North Shore hotel is a Four Diamond Award winner and a recipient of the 2012 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence Award. Located in the heart of downtown Evanston, The Hilton Orrington's focus is on superior guest service, and its 269 guest rooms join contemporary style and historic elegance. Enjoy updated modern amenities, including complimentary wireless high speed internet in all the public spaced as well as a variety of dining and lounge options, including Globe Café and the Indigo Lounge.
CITY: Evanston
Artemisia Home & Interior Decorating
A unique blend of antiques and elements. Unusual artisan works and uncommon finds including one-of-a-kind jewelry and accessories.
CITY: Geneva
Sisters Salon
The Sisters Jeanette & Elaine have been practicing the art of waxing for over 30 years and certainly love what they do. Friendly estheticians were trained by the Sisters and regularly update their techniques to give you the best services anywhere. Sisters invite you to come Discover Yourself and experience our one of a kind services for yourself.
CITY: Skokie
Miami Motel - Oak Lawn
New look, low rates, friendly service, great location! Lots of restaurants in the surrounding area.
CITY: Oak Lawn
Tranquility Skin & Body Care Center
Salon specializing in customized skin care, manicures, pedicures and waxing.
CITY: St. Charles
Ashyana Banquets
Ashyana Banquets is the premier venue for groups of 50 to 1,000 people and also features a private dining restaurant. Easy access from major highways and airports. Conveniently located close to shopping, golf courses and attractions.
CITY: Downers Grove
AOK Gourmet...on the go
From gourmet sandwiches and salads for five to catering for hundreds, we strive to make every experience unique and memorable. Enjoy sandwiches, salads, soups, entrees and more.
CITY: Skokie
Tommy Nevin's Pub
Featuring an all-day, Irish breakfast, hearty meals like Shepherd's Pie and Irish stew, plus healthier options such as raspberry balsamic salmon. There are 17 beers on tap, including Guiness and Harp. If the food and drinks don't provide sufficient Irish spirit for you, check out the daily drink specials.
CITY: Evanston
Days Inn O'Hare West
Business or pleasure, you will be treated to all Days Inn standards such as - Free WiFi high speed internet, free Daybreak Breakfast, Refreshing SolTerre shower experience.
CITY: Elk Grove Village
Wyndham Garden O'Hare/Elk Grove Village
The Brand New Wyndham Garden O'Hare/ Elk Grove Village is a contemporary urban retreat convenient to both O'Hare and Midway Airports, downtown Chicago, and Woodfield Mall. We are conveniently located in the center of Elk Grove Village Business Complex. Get energized in our state of the art deluxe fitness center. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner, or cocktails in our trendy restaurant and lounge. Our wonderfully inviting rooms and suites feature 32" HDTVs, Wyndham Be Well® Bed, wired and wireless Internet, MP3 capability, granite bathrooms, cordless speaker phones, desk with ergonomic chair, microwave, refrigerator, safe, iron and ironing board, and so much more. It's more than hospitality - it's an escape from the ordinary!
CITY: Elk Grove Village
Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar
A fun, family-friendly restaurant with a full menu that features award-winning traditional wings, boneless wings, chicken tenders, naked tenders, spun in one of 14 signature sauces. From barbeque to blazin', there's a sauce for everyone in the family. The menu also includes burgers wraps, salads, ribs and more. With a multitude of plasmas and big screen tv's it's the perfect place to watch your favorite team.
CITY: Evanston
International House of Pancakes - Skokie
Enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner anytime!
CITY: Skokie
Mandarin Garden
Conviently located at the Central St. "El" station, Mandarin Garden offers classic Chinese dishes.
CITY: Evanston
Merle's Barbecue
Meats are slow-smoked using the greenest hickory wood to ensure the juiciest, most favorable taste. To complement that, a variety of homemade barbeque sauces and other Southern specialities including salads and seafood dishes are offered.
CITY: Evanston
Sir Nick's Pizza
Great pizza.
CITY: Bartlett
Celebrating the wonder and innocence of childhood, this charming children's boutique, located in the heart of the Chicago-Dempster Shopping District, is known for its selection of distinctive clothing, toys, books and gifts for boys and girls (newborn-10).
CITY: Evanston
The Curragh Irish Pub
A traditional Irish Pub in Downtown Skokie serving time-honored traditional Irish fare including Guinness Fish & Chips, Corned Beef & Cabbage and Shepherd's Pie just to name a few as well as pub favorites such as hamburgers and sandwiches. Smaller Pub Bites include the Hummus & Crispy Pita Plate, Spinach & Artichoke Dip and Chicken Quesadillas. Watch a game on their large TVs or enjoy a meal and a drink on the outdoor patio.
CITY: Skokie
Pensiero Ristorante
Among the North Shore's finest Italian restaurants tucked inside the historic Margarita European Inn. Pensiero Ristorante serves Italian fare prepared from the finest imported ingredients. The moment you enter the room, you know you are in for a special dining experience. The menu is seasonally inspired and the wine list is sure to compliment your dining experience. During the summer, dine outdoors in the lovely garden terrace.
CITY: Evanston
Prairie Moon
Offering seasonal regional American menu in an award-winning setting with two full bars, outdoor dining, and a large party room in the heart of Evanston. Lunch, dinner, and a late night grill are offered every day, along with breakfast on Sundays.
CITY: Evanston
Siunik Armenian Grill
With passion for healthy, fresh and authentic Armenian cuisine, Siunik serves hummas, kabobs and Armenian tabuli like no other.
CITY: Skokie
Oak Park Visitors Center
Visit us for maps, books, souvenirs and unique gifts. Tickets are available for Hemingway's Birthplace Home and Museum, Historic Pleasant Home and The Historical Society of Oak Park & River Forest. Purchase other seasonal special events tickets here.
CITY: Oak Park
Hampton Inn & Suites Aurora
Near major attractions like Blackberry Farm, great golfing and shopping. Short drive to Hollywood Casino, Paramount Theatre and more. Amenities include 6,000 square foot swimming complex, kiddie pool, 2,200-gallon hot tub, exercise room and free high speed internet.
CITY: Aurora
New York Street Memorial Bridge
Spanning the entire scenic Fox River, the bridge's features include the circa 1930 "Memory" and "Victory" statues in honor of fallen soldiers.
CITY: Aurora
Coopers Hawk Winery & Restaurant
We combine modern casual dining with our own handcrafted, award-winning wines. In addition to a 300-seat restaurant, enjoy our bar, band room, private party spaces, Napa-style tasting room and retail gift store.
CITY: Orland Park
Gen-Hoe Restaurant
Authentic Cantonese & Szechwan style dishes featuring dim sum on Sundays.
CITY: Geneva
Nick's Pizza and Pub
Our dedicated family provides this community an unforgettable place to connect with your family and friends, to have fun, and to feel at home. Menu includes pizza, soup, salad, sandwiches, and beer.
CITY: Crystal Lake
Colonial Cafe East
Family owned since 1901, this family style restaurant is best known for its "Kitchen Sink" sundae. The restaurant is open daily for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and legendary ice cream.
CITY: St. Charles
Sweet Tomatoes - St. Charles
Salad bar with four specialty salads, fresh cut produce and all the fixings, full hot bakery, six made from scratch soups, three hot pastas, and dessert bar all for one low price. Buffet dining.
CITY: St. Charles
Giordano's Oakbrook Terrace
Pioneer of the famous stuffed and equally renowned thin-crust pizza! Pastas, sandwiches and assorted fresh salads. Dine-in, delivery, carryout, catering and full service bar.
CITY: Oakbrook Terrace
Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse - Oak Brook
The newest Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse embodies the big city dining experience with big flavor, steaks and chops, fresh fish daily, and enormous lobster tails--all matched with an extensive wine list.
CITY: Oak Brook
Yolo's Mexican Eatery
Family owned and operated Mexican eatery located in Downtown Skokie. Yolo offers a remarkable eating experience and an eclectic menu that changes often and caters to a wide variety of tastes. Traditional Mexican food at its finest. "An absolute gem" rave reviewers on Yelp.
CITY: Skokie
Have To Have
Have to Have carries women's clothing sizes 0-14, Miss Me Jeans, shoes, jewelry, purses and gifts. Open Tuesday-Friday 10:00am-5:00pm, Saturdays 10:00am-5:00pm and Sundays Noon-4:00pm. Closed Mondays.
CITY: Plainfield
Bagel Country
Bagel Country is the finest family-style dairy restaurants on the North Shore. Our 25 plus varieties of bagels and diverse menu is sure to offer something for everyone.
CITY: Skokie
Colonial Cafe - Crystal Lake
For over 100 years, Colonial Cafe and Ice Cream has been a family favorite restaurant - satisfying everyone's taste buds. All day, everyday our menu provides delicious options varying from eggceptional breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and ice cream!
CITY: Crystal Lake
Firehouse Grill
Located in a refurbished fire station, the Firehouse Grill features a variety of entrees, sandwiches, burgers and appetizers. Excellent beer selection.
CITY: Evanston
Wildberry Pancakes & Cafe
Wildberry specializes in gourmet breakfasts, fresh baked breads, panini sandwiches and so much more. Enjoy the inviting and warm fireplace or our beautiful outdoor patio. We also have a private dining room with beautiful French doors and mahogany stained hardwood. Our well trained staff is devoted to you and is always ready to help you out with anything you might need.
CITY: Schaumburg
The Office Dining & Spirits
Superb food in a casual, contemporary atmosphere. Outdoor smoke house for great meats and one of Fox Valley's best outdoor dining patios.
CITY: St. Charles
Dame Couture
This custom dress shop specializes in wedding gowns but also makes cocktail and eveningwear for women of all ages and taste. Dame also restyles and reconstructs vintage bridal. The shop's charming vintage atmosphere makes a lovely backdrop for a selection of jewelry by local artisans as well as veils, bags and a few off-the-rack dresses.
CITY: Evanston
Globe Cafe and Bar
Geared to today's business professional and educated travelers who want to keep up with world events. This friendly neighborhood restaurant offers newspapers and magazines, flat screen TVs and media towers located throughout the café, along with high-speed wireless internet. Plus, really great food.
CITY: Evanston
Becky & Me Toys
Toys, dolls, games, books, crafts and more for infants to pre-teens. Our carefully-chosen toys encourage active, creative, open-ended play. Our knowledgeable staff can help you select perfect gifts for your special kids and for the kid in you.
CITY: Glenview
Szechwan Restaurant
Casual Chinese dining. Lunch buffet Tuesdays through Fridays. No MSG. Come visit our newly remodeled restaurant.
CITY: St. Charles
Pleasant Home
Pleasant Home is an architectural gem that showcases 19th century craftsmanship and artistry. Designed in 1897 by prominent architect George W. Maher, the home is a National Historic Landmark and the only Maher building open to the public as a museum. You and your guests will be surrounded by rich custom woodwork, extraordinary art glass windows, intricate woodcarvings, and the glowing warmth of light from another era. The Pleasant Home's 1st floor includes of the Great Hall, Living and Dining Rooms and enclosed circular porch. The front porch is a great addition to the 1st floor during warmer weather. It is perfect for wedding ceremonies, smaller banquets or cocktail parties. The Library is slightly off the beaten path, but is a great place for a buffet station for a cocktail reception. It is also perfect for small lectures of meetings that do not require the use of the whole house.
CITY: Oak Park
Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home
Adlai Stevenson II was an important and influential figure in the political history of the United States. Stevenson was Governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and ran twice for President as the Democratic National Candidate in 1952 and 1956. He also served as Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 - 1965. The grounds are open daily for self-guided tours. The peaceful setting allows visitors to experience the historic landscape similar to when the family lived in the house. The house has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Group tours can be arranged through the Forest Preserves - 847-968-3422.
CITY: Mettawa
SpringHill Suites Burr Ridge
128-room, all-suite hotel. Complimentary hi-speed wireless Internet, breakfast, laundry facility, indoor heated pool, fitness center, business center, dataport telephones. Free shuttle service. Conveniently located at I-55 & County Line Road.
CITY: Burr Ridge
Va Pensiero
Among the North Shore's finest Italian restaurants. Located inside the historic Margarita European Inn, the look here is decidedly Italy in the 1920's. The menu is seasonally inspired with an extensive wine list featuring a nice variety of reasonably priced Italian wines. During the summer, dining is available in the garden terrace.
CITY: Evanston
Avli Restaurant
"Philoxenia" is the Greek word for traditional hospitality. Here at Avli everyone should feel like they are visiting an old friend. Traditional Greek dishes are done with passion for food.
CITY: Winnetka
Chili's Grill & Bar - Skokie
Chili's has sizzling fajitas, big mouth burgers and yummy desserts.
CITY: Skokie
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Enjoy the atmosphere and ethnicity of good, fresh food served at the counter. Specialties include burrittos and margaritas.
CITY: Evanston
Bracht's Place
Good food, good drinks, good company.
CITY: Bartlett
Flat Top Grill - Evanston
Flat Top Grill is a create your own stir-fry restaurant. We offer more than 25 ingredients including traditional and exotic fruits and vegetables, a selection of rice and noodles, signature handcrafted sauces, prime beef tenderloin and seasonal offerings.
CITY: Evanston
Barrington Art Festival
Celebrate Memorial Day Weekend at the Barrington Art Festival. The festival offers the work of 125 juried artists from around the country in a variety of mediums, including ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, metal, photography, watercolors and wood. Live music, great food and fun activities for kids make the Barrington Art Festival a perfect family experience!
CITY: Barrington
Yolo Mexican Eatery
Family owned and operated Yolo offers a menu that changes often and caters to a wide variety of tastes. Traditional Mexican food at its finest and a recent Bib Gourmand 2014 winner.
CITY: Skokie
Prime BurgerHouse
You want a better burger? Than build it yourself at Prime BurgerHouse. Choose from a variety of toppings that range from the traditional to the exotic. Feel like something more intoxicating? Try one of Prime's sexy signature cocktails or specialty beers.
CITY: Elgin
Tub Tim Thai Restaurant
A family-owned establishment with charm and coziness and very helpful waitstaff. Located in charming downtown Skokie, a trip to Tim Tub Thai offers an adventure of authentic Thai dining at its finest. The menu offers the usual Thai fare--Pad Thai, Tom Yum soup, beef salad -- all the standard Thai fare done superbly with other unique specialties.
CITY: Skokie
Morning Glory
Creating beautiful fresh flower arrangements as well as blooming plants and European gardens. Work with our design team to create exquisite custom floral for weddings, parties, bar and bat mitzvahs and other special events.
CITY: Glenview
Super 8 Aurora
66 rooms with hot tub suites, complimentary deluxe breakfast, free high-speed Internet, an indoor heated pool and spa, fitness room, free local calls and cable TV. Chicago Premium Outlets, restaurants, golf courses and other attractions are nearby.
CITY: Aurora
Villa Verone
We have been offering you a taste of Italy for over 14 years. Come discover or rediscover the charms of Italy and Mamma's good cooking.
CITY: Geneva
E.J.'s Place
Great food, attentive service, and a comfortable north woods-inspired decor make EJ's Place a fine choice for lunch or dinner. The dinner menu leans toward red meat, fish and Italian specialties. Portions are enormous and doggy bags virtually de rigueur.
CITY: Skokie


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Thursday, October 6, 1994, 1:30 p.m.
Room 646, Philadelphia City Hall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Good afternoon. My name is Lawrence J. Beaser and I am a partner with the Philadelphia law firm of Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley.
As Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, I am very pleased to be here today on behalf of our more than 12,500 members, and to communicate to you some of our concerns regarding the state of the courts and the judiciary in Pennsylvania. Many of our members practice in the various state courts within Philadelphia - the Common Pleas, Municipal, Family, Orphans, Traffic and criminal courts - and in various other jurisdictions throughout the Commonwealth. As Chancellor, I frequently am the recipient of comments and criticisms about the operations of our courts.
During this past year, those comments have increasingly had a sharper focus and, at least among Philadelphia lawyers, there seems to be a consensus that our courts and judiciary have lost the respect of the public, and that the image of justice in Pennsylvania has lost much of its luster. That should come as no surprise, given what has been learned about the internal operations of our supreme court and about the actions of former Justice Rolf Larsen.
The irony here, of course, is that these revelations really are not news to us. Many of us have known for some time of the potential for a wide range of abuses stemming not only from the "bad apple" jurist but from an administrative culture which is best characterized as haphazard. We welcome the opportunity to address you today and to communicate the most serious of our concerns to you.
When Governor Casey convened the Pennsylvania Judicial Reform Commission in July, 1987, it was in response to a growing and disturbing sentiment then that Pennsylvania's courts did not enjoy a sufficient reputation for integrity and excellence. Many court observers hoped that the blue-ribbon Commission, headed by Superior Court Judge Phyllis Beck, would begin the difficult work of bringing true reform to our courts. We hoped for reform as comprehensive and fundamental as Arthur Vanderbilt's work in New Jersey, which helped end the days when "Jersey Justice" was a joke and began an era in which the New Jersey state courts are among the best-respected in the nation.
The Philadelphia Bar Association endorsed the recommendations of the Beck Commission since their release in 1988. Those recommendations for improving our courts encompass a wide variety of reforms. They are, in fact, a blueprint for effecting the transformation of our court system to one which, like New Jersey's present system, is worthy of respect and emulation.
One significant recommendation of the Beck Commission - wholesale revision of our judicial discipline system - came to fruition when an overwhelming percentage of voters endorsed a judicial discipline constitutional amendment in May, 1993. As Chairman Dermody noted in his closing remarks on the Senate floor last week, the Larsen impeachment proceedings have illuminated some of the serious flaws in the previous disciplinary system.
We should be proud of our new system, but its adoption is not enough. There are two additional significant but as yet unfulfilled recommendations of the Beck Commission. One is that we eliminate our elective system of choosing appellate judges in favor of a merit-based appointive system. The other is statewide funding and unified budgeting for a unified statewide justice system. I will focus primarily on these two recommendations.
By way of background, I have been involved with judicial reform efforts in Pennsylvania for over twenty years. As Counsel to the Governor in the 1970's, I met with representatives of organized labor, led by the AFL-CIO, and the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, when they strongly urged then-Governor Shapp to adopt a voluntary merit selection system for gubernatorial appointments and to support a merit selection constitutional amendment.
I was one of the drafters of the executive order creating Governor Shapp's Trial and Appellate Court Nominating Committees. This became the first advisory merit selection system established in Pennsylvania for both the trial and appellate courts.
I administered this system, assisted the Governor in making judicial appointments, and drafted judicial reform proposals for the Governor.
Since the issuance of the Beck Report in 1988, I have acted on behalf of the Philadelphia Bar Association and Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts as a drafter of judicial reform constitutional amendments proposed to implement the Beck Commission Report.
As Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association during 1994, I have had the unique opportunity to represent our Association during a time when scrutiny of the courts and our judges, by both the legal profession and the public, is perhaps higher than ever before. The impeachment proceedings in Harrisburg have cast a harsh light on our Supreme Court.
Last week, the Senate of Pennsylvania was admonished, with words inspired by William Penn: "Now is the hour for the men and women of the Pennsylvania Senate to give motion to government, to give life to the constitution, to give hope to the people, and to restore integrity to the courts." Those are your words, Chairman Dermody, and you were urging the Senate to do what it has now done, to find Rolf Larsen guilty of the articles of impeachment against him.
Those words very aptly describe what should now be our collective goal, and I submit to you that to accomplish that goal, convicting Rolf Larsen is not enough.
It is not enough to have adopted the judicial discipline constitutional amendment.
It is not enough for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to adopt improved internal operating procedures, such as those which Justices Cappy and Montemuro are expected to announce next week.
With all due respect, it is not enough to conduct still more hearings on judicial reform.
It is not enough to adopt so-called reforms which in fact amount to nothing more than band-aids for a cancer-riddled system which cries out for far more serious help.
We must instead demonstrate to the public and to those who are content with the status quo that we will do whatever it takes to effect real reforms.
We must find a way to put the best and the brightest on the bench, regardless of hometown, race, gender or political affiliation. We must find a way to ensure that high court judges cannot favor friends and political supporters, or those who share religious or ideological beliefs. The people of Pennsylvania deserve nothing less. Merit selection of judges is the best way to accomplish those goals.
Our support for merit selection predates the Beck Report. It predates the recent events surrounding our Supreme Court. It predates another embarrassing situation which you may recall - the Roofer's scandal which broke in 1986 and dominated headlines in Philadelphia and across the state for more than two years.
In fact, our support for merit selection of judges goes back much further. A chronicle of the Association's 150th Anniversary in 1952 proudly describes the Association's "active campaign of information and education in support of the 'Pennsylvania Plan' for improving the caliber of the judiciary through adoption of a constitutional amendment providing for a better method of judicial selection." That "better method" of selecting judges was an early precursor to the merit selection plans embodied in Senate Bill 340 and House Bill 2, introduced respectively by Senator Bortner and Representative Evans this legislative session.
Among our membership, a strong desire for a merit-based judicial selection process is a consistently high priority. When we surveyed our membership in 1984 and again in 1990, each time over 90% of our members identified passage of a merit selection constitutional amendment as an issue of primary importance.
A change to merit selection will give the people of Pennsylvania a more distinguished, more independent and more representative appellate bench. We deserve the very best our profession has to offer. That can be accomplished only if we give up the political election of judges in favor of merit selection.
Most of the arguments in favor of changing from contested political election of judges to a merit selection system focus on the problems inherent in the elective process itself. To win election to the bench, a successful judicial candidate need not prove to voters that he or she will be a good judge. Instead, the most important asset a judicial candidate in Pennsylvania can have is money and the ability to raise it.
The Beck Commission reported that in 1983, the successful candidate for Supreme Court raised campaign funds totalling almost $193,000. Six years later, in 1989, the amount raised by the successful candidate had risen to more than $1.4 million, more than half of which was contributed by members of the legal profession. While the winning supreme court candidate in 1993 raised $300,000, the amount raised by the losing candidate - over $1.5 million - shows that the price of a Pennsylvania judicial campaign has not dropped.
Fund-raising by judicial candidates gives rise to troubling issues which are qualitatively different from those faced by candidates for other elective offices. Candidates for non-judicial office are able to garner financial support from those who believe in their stated positions and ideology.
Judicial candidates, on the whole, raise campaign funds from their natural constituency: the members of the bar. In the wake of the Larsen impeachment, how can we defend the practice of judges raising money from people who may soon appear before them seeking favorable decisions for one side in a dispute? How can we expect the public to have confidence in our system of justice when the system we use to select judges gives the appearance that the quality of justice can be affected by campaign contributions or personal friendships? How can we continue to perpetuate a system which gave rise to Justice Larsen's notorious "special list"?
There are those who point to the fact that in our democratic system, each of you as members of the House of Representatives stand for election, the Governor is elected, and members of the Senate are elected. They argue that judges should similarly face the people in contested, partisan elections.
Such arguments miss the point - and the genius - of our system of separation of powers and checks and balances.
Each of you as a member of the House represents your district and, collectively, you represent all the people of Pennsylvania. Your job is to represent your constituents in the legislative process and to look out for their interests.
The Governor and the members of the Senate also serve in a representative capacity.
Judges, however, are different. When I go into court, I do not want the judge representing anyone, nor would you. We want that judge to decide the case on the law and the facts presented in that court.
The constituency of a judge must be the constitution and the laws of the Commonwealth. The mission of a judge is justice.
Both in appearance and in fact, the present system of electing appellate judges through partisan, political elections widely misses the mark.
Many of our judges are honest, hardworking, and indeed, bring honor and dignity to the courts of this Commonwealth. Unfortunately, these good judges are often tainted with the broad brush of condemnation that scandal brings. Moreover, under our present system of choosing judges, those good, honest, hard-working judges would seem to have reached the bench despite the system and not as a result of it. We can only guess at how many men and women who are highly qualified for the bench have chosen not to undergo the elective process, and we can ill-afford to lose them.
I am not taking issue with the right of the people to decide under our retention system whether a judge, at the end of his or her term, should be removed from office. However, that decision can be based on a judge's record in office, not on the judge's fund-raising ability, ballot position or county of residence.
I am not a trial lawyer, but I know, as any good trial lawyer knows, that it is dangerous to overstate one's case. So I will not tell you that merit selection is a perfect system, nor will I tell you that a change to merit selection system of choosing appellate judges will remove politics from the process.
However, if our objective is to provide the people of Pennsylvania with the very best and most representative appellate bench possible, merit selection is a vast improvement over the elective system. Since 1950, every state that has changed the way it selects judges for statewide positions has moved away from highly politicized election systems - all but one changed to a merit selection system. Georgia, the exception, changed from a system of partisan elections to non-partisan elections.
Opponents of merit selection frequently point to the federal system of judicial selection as an example of a merit selection system, and argue that we do not need that kind of system. Certainly the federal system can be justly criticized as highly political and the federal judicial selection process often may have little to do with true merit. But the proposals we support provide for true merit selection, rather than the political appointment of judges which often occurs under the federal system. The federal system of judicial selection is not a true merit selection system.
Unlike the federal system, the Bortner/Evans proposal provides that candidates for judicial appointment be screened carefully by a Judicial Nominating Commission. Under both measures, the Nominating Commission will be appointed by the Governor and 8 of its 12 members will be selected from a list of individuals submitted by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the House Speaker, and the Senate and House Minority Leaders. Of the 12, half will be lawyers and half will be laypersons. No more than half will be from the same political party.
Significantly, those submitting names to the Governor for selection to the Nominating Commission shall, under the proposed constitutional amendments, take into account that the Commission should include both men and women, members of the labor, business, and civic communities, and members who are from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds who also reflect the geographical diversity of the Commonwealth. In making appointments to the Nominating Commission, the Governor shall, under the proposed constitutional amendments, ensure that its ultimate composition is similarly diverse and representative.
Upon the creation of a vacancy on the Supreme, Superior or Commonwealth Courts, the Nominating Commission will advertise the vacancy and solicit applications. It will then select five persons of demonstrated competence, judgment and integrity to submit to the Governor for consideration, first taking into account the applicants' qualifications and then again considering the goal that each appellate bench should include both men and women, and judges and justices from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, and who reflect the Commonwealth's geographic diversity as well.
Many people have expressed concern that an ideological litmus test has been applied under the federal selection system from time to time. Unlike the federal system, the merit selection proposals before you do not readily allow for a litmus test on any particular issue as a prerequisite to recommendation by the Nominating Commission.
From the five names forwarded to the Governor for each vacancy, one will be nominated by the Governor to fill the vacancy. The Senate has the final word, however, as the Governor's nominee must then be confirmed by a majority vote of the Senate. After being elevated to the bench in this way, a justice or judge may be retained for an additional term or removed from the bench by a retention vote of the people.
There are those who are concerned that, under a merit selection system, the people will lose their voice in the selection process. It is true that citizens will no longer vote directly for candidates for our appellate courts under the Bortner/Evans proposal.
However, the Nominating Commission will be comprised of a group of people who reflect the diverse perspectives of the citizens of Pennsylvania. Both the Governor and the Senate will certainly be as responsive to public opinion on judicial candidates as they are on legislative issues. And ultimately the public will have the last word - after seeing how any particular judge performs, the voters have the chance either to retain or remove that judge.
Under our constitutional, the voters should also have the last word on whether to abandon the present elective system in favor of one which allows judges to remain true to their constituent: justice. On behalf of the Philadelphia Bar Association, I urge you to give the people of Pennsylvania the opportunity to make that choice.
In addition to adopting a merit selection constitutional amendment, we must also begin to finance the judicial branch like a co-equal branch of government, rather than a poor relation which must beg, hat in hand, for operating funds each year.
According to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics , in 1990, total justice spending by federal, state and local governments was, at $74 billion, a mere three percent of total government spending. The amount spent on courts? One third of one percent. In Pennsylvania, the budget adopted in June for FY1994/5(?) allocates $_________ to the General Assembly, and only _______ to the judiciary. [checking this figure with Ron/Tony]
In Philadelphia, that serious lack of funding is compounded by the fact that funding for court operations and personnel is a municipal responsibility, and the Commonwealth pays only the salaries of judges. That scheme presents its own unique problems.
As reported by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judicial Study Committee in 1990, "[W]hen the state legislature acts to provide more judges, it contributes nothing to the cost necessary for facilities and support staff. It is unrealistic to expect Philadelphia, which is currently unwilling or unable to fund our present needs adequately, to contribute additional monies for new courtrooms and staff."
The obvious solution, recommended by the Beck Commission in 1988, is for the state to assume responsibility for the full funding of local courts. In fact, in County of Allegheny v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court mandated statewide funding, but did not address the issue of how or when it should occur. The court instead ordered that the existing system remain in place until the General Assembly had an opportunity to enact funding legislation. Unfortunately, nothing has changed since then.
Common sense dictates that the quality of justice rendered by our courts is critically affected if the level of funding provided is insufficient. Competitive judicial and professional salaries, appropriate compensation for court-appointed counsel, adequate facilities and equipment, funding for ethics and other training for judges, all these things should be more than a wish list. Again, it is imperative that the judicial branch be funded at levels sufficient to afford it the ability to accomplish its work.
Earlier this year, the Legal Intelligencer reported that, as a result of the General Assembly's failure to adopt increased filing fees, court computerization project and other automation projects have been put on hold. It was also reported that money was not appropriated in the state budget to fund a study aimed at eradicating gender and racial bias in state courts, to fund mandatory education for judges, or to establish a policy planning office.
How significant is the loss of these programs? I expect you will hear more about that from Judge Bonavitacola when he testifies. I would like, briefly, to highlight just a few of our concerns in this area.
As you are surely aware, Pennsylvania lawyers are now required by the supreme court annually to complete a number of hours of mandatory legal education, including ethics and professionalism training. The supreme court has been criticized for imposing that requirement on lawyers while at the same time not imposing any such requirement on themselves or any other members of the judiciary.
Yet without funding to pay for such training, the supreme court cannot help but appear both hypocritical and self-interested. Putting aside the question of how this apparent hypocrisy can be justified to the public, surely the Larsen case has amply demonstrated that judges need continuing legal education in ethics and professionalism as much as do lawyers.
The need to address issues of gender and racial bias in our courts is equally important. The Pennsylvania constitution guarantees equal justice under the law, regardless of race or sex.
But many lawyers and litigants believe that women and people of color are in fact treated differently in our courts, perhaps not in every case, but often enough that the problem is systemic, not occasional.
In November, 1993, the Philadelphia Bar Association petitioned the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to create a commission to investigate racial and ethnic bias in the state courts. Because I cannot improve on its framing of the issue at stake here, I quote the supporting brief:
... [T]here is no such thing as partial justice. If justice is denied to anyone, especially on the basis of bigotry or systemic bias, it is denied to everyone. The halls of justice, where our citizens come to seek redress of wrongs, should not also wrong its participants.
The funding of a program to determine whether in fact our courts are tainted by systemic systems of bias against women and people of color should not be viewed as an option, the way a financially-strapped school district might consider cutting extracurricular programs such as interscholastic sports. We must determine whether Pennsylvania justice is indeed blind. If it is not, we must effect changes to ensure that it is.
To continue to ignore the needs of our justice system, to expect that they will somehow be met without the appropriation of funds, is dangerous. If an airplane is not routinely maintained, no one is surprised if that plane subsequently crashes. If we continue to ignore the needs of our court system, it too will crash, and the consequences will shake the very foundations of our society.
Thank you for you attention here today. I think Chairman Dermody's remarks of last week are worth repeating again: "Now is the time to give motion to government, to give life to the constitution, to give hope to the people, and to restore integrity to the courts." I hope you will consider that the mission of this committee; we stand ready to be your partner in that effort.
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The most consistent trophy hunters we read about in story after story all have two things in common. First, they're… more
Deer Behavior
How Mature Bucks Use The Windby Steve Bartylla 1
Slipping into my hunting clothes, I checked the wind one last time. To be safe, I headed to the stand… more
Shedding Light On Nocturnal Bucksby Don Higgins 2
Are most mature bucks totally nocturnal? Or is this an excuse that hunters use when daytime sightings of certain bucks are almost nonexistent?
Decoding Scent-Post Rubsby Bobby Worthington 0
Last month, we discussed a variety of rubs, including velvet-shedding rubs and mock-combat rubs. This month, we'll delve into the much more complicated world of scent-post, or scent-communication, rubs. Without a doubt, these are the most significant rubs to hunters.
Understanding Different Types Of Whitetail Rubsby Bobby Worthington 0
What good old red-blooded American hunter's pulse does not quicken when he hears these words whispered in the fall woods? Like scrapes, rubs are one of the most exciting and informative types of sign left by a buck in the fall woods. But in order to benefit from what rubs can tell us, we've got to be able to understand them.
Making Sense of Mock Scrapesby Don Higgins 0
Being a successful trophy hunter means being open-minded to new ideas. In this story, the author shares his experience with a mock-scrape technique learned from two other experts that produces results.
How A Buck Uses His Nose To Detect Dangerby Don Higgins 0
Mature bucks use their noses in ways that hunters often fail to understand, and this lack of understanding comes with a heavy price. By learning as much as we can about the way bucks use the "scent factor" as a survival tool, we might just increase our odds of filling a tag.
A Closer Look at Whitetail Scrapesby Bobby Worthington 0
Often spoken in the fall woods, these words can make your heart skip a beat. But what does that scrape really mean to you the hunter? Here we take an in-depth look at scrapes and their purpose.
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If you can correctly second-guess that cagey old buck you're after, you may be well on your way toward winning the contest. But how do you actually get inside his head? Veteran bowhunter Mike Rex shares some invaluable insight.
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Has anyone noticed how much of a 'spend now, pay later' culture our society has become? Everything in our current society pushes us to spend. Glamorous advertisements, enticing sales, special promotions, and even reward credit cards. How can we say no to that 'to-die-for' pair of shoes that is now 20% off or that new PS3 that's coming with every Sony television? We don't even need to have money in our bank accounts! We can just pay on the credit card (get some reward points while we're at it) and we can pay it off...read more
Week one of recording my expenses is finishing today. It hasn't been that bad really although day 2 I lost my money diary. Thankfully I used the picture I posted here last week to get it back up and running. I'm now using a rubber band to attach the diary to my wallet. The hardest thing I've found is because I have write my expenses down, I want to change how I spend my money. This apparently is called the "Hawthorne Effect", where you improve your behaviour in response to the fact that it's being...read more
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New figures released to day by ITSA (Insolvency & Trustee Service Australia) showed that there were 6,568 new bankrupts in the March 2010 quarter, a decrease of 8.29% against bankruptcy activity in the March 2009 quarter (7,162) and a decrease of 2.98% on bankruptcy activity in the December 2009 quarter (6,770).read more
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There's no shortage of adventure in Maine. Over the years I've learned that I'm a terrible skier, an excellent paddleboard jouster, and not trustworthy with a fly fishing rod. But I've learned some unexpected life lessons, too - sage words of adventurer's advice that come in handy long after the crampons come off. Read on
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The Blazing World
From the internationally bestselling author, praised for her "beguiling, lyrical prose" (The Sunday Times Review, UK), comes a brilliant, provocative novel about an artist, Harriet Burden, who after years of being ignored by the art world conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.
Presented as a collection of texts, edited and introduced by a scholar years after the artist's death, the book unfolds through extracts from Burden's notebooks and conflicting accounts from others about her life and work. Even after she steps forward to reveal herself as the force behind three solo shows, there are those who doubt she is responsible for the last exhibition, initially credited to the acclaimed artist Rune. No one doubts the two artists were involved with each other. According to Burden's journals, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death.
From one of the most ambitious and internationally celebrated writers of her generation, Hustvedt's The Blazing World is a polyphonic tour de force. It is also an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that addresses the shaping influences of prejudice, money, fame, and desire on what we see in one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, this is a book you won't be able to put down.
"The Blazing World offers a spirited romp…constructed as a Nabokovian cat's cradle….Hustvedt's portrait of the artist as a middle-aged widow is searingly fresh. It's rare to encounter a female protagonist who throws her weight around quite so grandiloquently as Harriet Burden, a heroine who is–well, more like the hero of a Philip Roth or a Saul Bellow novel."
—New York Times Book Review
"[A] playfully diabolic tour de force."
—O: The Oprah Magazine
"The Blazing World is Siri Hustvedt's best novel yet, an electrifying work with a titanic, poignantly flawed protagonist. . . [A] skillfully orchestrated chorus of voices both dark and brilliant. . . . The novel's polyphonic structure delivers a wrenchingly sad story."
—Washington Post
"A glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship. . . .[The Blazing World's] touching conclusion 'blazes hot and bright' from the perspective of an aura reader, Harriet's caretaker, whose vision of the artist's work is at once spiritually charged and whimsical."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"As in her previous masterpiece, What I Loved (2003), Hustvedt paints a scathing portrait of the art world, obsessed with money and the latest trend, but superb descriptions of Harry's work—installations expressing her turbulence and neediness—remind us that the beauty and power of art transcend such trivialities . . . Blazing indeed: not just with Harry's fury, but with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity." —Kirkus Reviews *starred review*
"Larger-than-life Harry reads vociferously, loves fervently, and overflows with intellectual and creative energy . . . . Hustvedt dissects the art world with ironic insight . . . . a funny, sad, thought-provoking, and touching portrait of a woman who is blazing with postfeminist fury and propelled by artistic audacity." —Publishers Weekly
"Hustvedt subtly explores the intricate workings of the brain and the mysteries of the mind as she shrewdly investigates gender differences, parodies art criticism, and contrasts diabolical ambition and the soul-scouring inquiries of expressive art. A heady, suspenseful, funny, and wrenching novel of creativity, identity, and longing." —Booklist *starred review*
"This is feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, or Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced. And at the same time, the book is a spectacularly good read. Its storytelling is magnificent, its characters vivid, its plot gripping; it's rare that a novel of ideas can be so much fun." —Slate.com
"The Blazing World is poundingly alive with ideas, personalities, conviction, fear, fakery, ambition, and sorrow. The reading mind is set on high, happy alert." —New York Journal of Books
"Siri Hustvedt has written a superb, important, and wildly engrossing novel." —BookBrowse.com
"Intelligent and . . . knowledgeable about the world of modern art, theory, and philosophy, Hustvedt describes in detail the insular world of the New York City art scene." —Library Journal
"[A]n exuberantly clever piece of work. Fascinated by disguise, play-acting and ventriloquism, it lures its readers into a maze of characters, viewpoints and apparently persuasive arguments – then insists, refreshingly, that they think their way out. . . . Its real pleasures come from Hustvedt's startling talent for voice and register. . . .[The Blazing World] is a novel that gloriously lives up to its title, one blazing with energy and thought." —The Times (UK)
"Immediately engrossing. . . . None of the narrators, even Harriet, are precisely reliable, and this ingeniously supports Harriet's own theory that we are all just monsters wearing masks." —San Antonio Current
"[A] playfully diabolic tour de force." —O Magazine
"The Blazing World is poundingly alive with ideas, personalities, conviction, fear, fakery, ambition, and sorrow. The reading mind is set on high, happy alert." —New York Journal
"This novel is a puzzle, a mystery, a dance, filled with intrigue, a truly wonderful intellectual work that makes you think and laugh and tickles the brain." —The Daily Mail (UK)
"Entertaining satirical fun." —The Guardian (UK)
"A teeming intellectual maze with ominous undertones. . . . The rigorous and arresting Blazing World both demands and welcomes. . . . [Hustvedt] and this rich, necessary novel demand that we spend more time thinking deeply, making connections, seeing what is hidden in full view in a distracting, surface world." —Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
"Every now and again I come across a book that makes me wish to do violence to my learning, to tear away words like tour de force and magnificent in order to excavate something more true, more raw, more appropriate to the experience of reading it. Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World is such a book. Like fire, it feeds as it consumes: It gives off the warmth and light by which to read, understand, marvel at it — but in order to do so it absorbs the reader's gaze, knowledge and attention and combusts them, transforms them into the brightness by which it is read. . . . I was consistently amazed by the brilliance of the interplay between chapters, the cadence and variation of voices and the information they conveyed, and the book's unnerving anticipation of my reactions to it." —NPR.org
"Ingeniously and energetically put together. . . . The Blazing World never runs out of steam in dispensing ideas and peeling back layers of truth." —Chicago Tribune
"Densely brilliant. . .terrifyingly clever. . . . Hustvedt's text is carefully, impressively constructed." —The Independent (UK)
"Siri Hustvedt has a rare gift for finding the human heart in what might be cerebral musings and rarefied settings." —Columbus Dispatch
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Living, Thinking, Looking
The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting (Mysteries of the Rectangle) as well as an interdisciplinary investigation of a neurological disorder (The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves). She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2011, she delivered the thirty-ninth annual Freud Lecture in Vienna. Living, Thinking, Looking brings together thirty-two essays written between 2006 and 2011, in which the author culls insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, and literature.
The book is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt's life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art. And yet, the same questions recur throughout the collection. How do we see, remember, and feel? How do we interact with other people? What does it mean to sleep, dream, and speak? What is "the self"? Hustvedt's unique synthesis of knowledge from many fields reinvigorates the much-needed dialogue between the humanities and the sciences as it deepens our understanding of an age-old riddle: What does it mean to be human?
"Another superb essay collection from novelist Hustvedt … the author trains a formidable intellect on difficult subjects (the structure of the brain, the nature of perception) with an engaging personal touch that invites a general readership … Hustvedt addresses a broad public without dumbing down her material. There are no weak essays here … At once stimulating and warm-hearted, with sentences of drop-dead beauty and acuity on nearly every page." —Kirkus Reviews *starred review*
"Hustvedt's essays are always perceptive, erudite, and also quite rarefied." —Publishers Weekly
"An ardent reader, researcher, observer, and writer, Hustvedt presents an impressive group of involving inquiries spanning six years and a spectrum of intriguing subjects stemming from her main fascination, 'what it means to be human.' … Hustvedt is wholly present and compelling in her iridescent essays as she pinpoints such elusive phenomena as memory, perception, and feeling and traces the fine mesh that unites our minds to our bodies, our individual selves to the living world. Mystery, fact, intelligence, and enchantment flourish here." —Booklist
"[Hustvedt uses] the self and ideas of self to launch brilliantly into recondite areas of cognition and psychiatric theory." —Buffalo News
"For while there is nothing simple about Hustvedt's subject matter – it ranges from migraine to Goya via existential philosophy and psychoanalysis – there is something refreshingly straightforward about her style. It has the confidence born of complex but well digested thoughts and thus lacks the tendency to obfuscate that is the hallmark of the inferior thinker's style." —The Guardian (UK)
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The Summer Without Men
An International Bestseller Read an Excerpt "And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment." Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a "pause." This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia's release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people's home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is drawn into the lives of those around her—her mother and her close friends,"the Five Swans," and her young neighbor with two small children and a loud angry husband—and the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat all their own. From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes a provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.
Already a bestseller in Germany (#4) Reviews: The Observer Guardian The Australian
"[A] rich and intelligent meditation on female identity, written in beguiling lyrical prose. While some may take issue with her claim in the novel that the contemporary literary imagination 'emanates a distinctly feminine perfume', this novel cannot be described otherwise. Its fragrance, however, is heady and intoxicating." —Lucy Scholes, Sunday Times Review (UK)
"Siri Hustvedt is a novelist of great intelligence. She knows the ways of the world and of the heart. She also knows a great deal about literature, art, philosophy, psychoanalysis and the neurosciences. She has woven this knowledge into her fiction, particularly in the mesmerising What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American, to great dramatic effect. In her recent memoir, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, she took us on a dazzling journey through the mind-doctoring sciences as she sought an answer to the mystery of the wild shaking fits that took her over while speaking at her father's memorial. The Summer Without Men is a new departure. Despite its painful subject matter – marital rupture, encroaching death, the tormenting antics of malice-ridden girls – the novel is a mordant comedy. And unlike Hustvedt's earlier, carefully woven fictions, this one wears its seams on the outside. It plays with fictionality, invoking the 'dear readers' that we are, and making a mockery of sequential time on the page. It gives us shards of memory, poetry, the verse and stories that emerge from a writing class, philosophical text messages from a Mr Nobody, as well as a reading group's response to Austen's Persuasion, that template of delayed gratification." —Lisa Appignanesi, The Observer
"What joy to see Hustvedt, the author, heretofore, of such elegantly dark, labyrinthine novels as The Sorrows of an American (2008), have such mordant fun in this saucy and scathing novel about men and women, selfishness and generosity. In Mia, Hustvedt has created a companionable and mischievous narrator to cherish, a healthy-minded woman of high intellect, blazing humor, and boundless compassion." —Donna Seaman, Booklist
"Instead of being another novel of a woman on the brink, this becomes an adroit take on love, men and women, and girls and women." —Publishers Weekly
"Lighthearted but not lightweight – a smart, sassy reflection on the varieties of female experience." —Kirkus Reviews
"A chronological story builds through association, with scenes from that summer interspersed with digressions on a range of subjects, including ideological biology, and the devaluation of 'women's travail' in literature written by women… These parenthetical excursions give the novel its complex texture. Events are coupled with commentary, commentary leads into event and temporal sequence is delightfully confused. Such digressive freedom is one of the pleasures of The Summer Without Men, in which fiction, fantasy, and historical fact are interweaved." —The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
"Engaging… Hustvedt's intensely visual writing spans the generations. She can conjure up a child's realm of imaginary friends as evocatively as the brave face adopted by the elderly living in 'a world of continual loss'. It's by turns funny, moving and erudite, playfully reminding us of a contemporary Jane Austen." —Daily Mail (UK)
"A wise book by one of America's most skilful writers." —Good Housekeeping
"An exquisite, though-provoking novel." —Women & Home
"Mia is exceptional in almost every way…. Her voracious reading of literature, philosophy and science—and favorite excerpts are sprinkled throughout—has led her to a hard-won equanimity. She is also blessed with empathy, irony and a healthy dose of feminist outrage at the way women's minds and bodies are routinely devalued. These qualities, combined with an almost surreal sensitivity to her environment, lead to an oddly satisfying conclusion in which love and sanity prevail…. Finely wrought descriptions of everything from maternal love to mean girls and marital sex make this slim volume well worth reading." —Associated Press
"A mesmerizing and powerful meditation on marriage, the differences between the sexes, aging and what it means to be a woman…. Truly breathtaking… Borrowing from science, philosophy, poetry and literature, Hustvedt boldly burrows deep into the feminine psyche, exposing the dark doubts and insecurities we all keep locked deep inside. Mia's candid musings on the cruelty of young girls alongside the harsh reality of growing old are unflinchingly honest, and Hustvedt's bravery in presenting an unvarnished portrait of the "fairer sex" is exhilarating…. Rich with both the pleasures and sorrows that make life complete, this is a powerful and provocative novel that will have astute readers reconsidering where exactly the boundaries between truth and fiction lie." —BookPage
"The Summer Without Men is sprightly and frisky, even as it contends with life-and-death subjects…. The intellectual menu includes not just Hustvedt's usual forays into philosophy, literary theory, neurology and psychiatry, but also an investigation into romantic comedy, both the classic Hollywood version—'love as verbal war'—and Jane Austen's Persuasion… Among the novel's pleasures are its analysis of gender…and the character of Mia herself, who comes across as honest, witty and empathetic (and is rendered charmingly in line drawings by the multitalented Hustvedt herself)." —The New York Times Book Review
"[An] elegant new novel, a smart and surprisingly amusing meditation on love, friendship and sexual politics… Author of four other novels, including What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American, Hustvedt clearly enjoys letting Mia vent her feminist screeds in hopes of transforming her broken heart into some blazing insight on the nature of men and women, yet she never allows Boris to completely turn into some terrible, disloyal, caddish creature despite his flaws. Hustvedt's view roams wider than Mia's wounds; she taps into poignant truths about women and life's different stages." —The Miami Herald
"This brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis… The noisy chorus in Mia's head has an appealing way of getting inside the reader's too." —The Wall Street Journal
"Composed in tight vivid prose, The Summer Without Men is energetic, and handles its subjects with depth and wit, painting its characters and their complex emotions in the kind of detail that rings true to life." —Biblioklept.org
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The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
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In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a shuddering wreck. Then the seizures happened again and again. The Shaking Woman tracks Hustvedt's search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific disciplines, each one of which offers a distinct perspective on her paroxysms but no ready solution. In the process, she finds herself entangled in fundamental questions: What is the relationship between brain and mind? How do we remember? What is the self? During her investigations, Hustvedt joins a discussion group in which neurologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and brain scientists trade ideas to develop a new field: neuropsychoanalysis. She volunteers as a writing teacher for psychiatric in-patients at the Payne Whitney clinic in New York City and unearths precedents in medical history that illuminate the origins of and shifts in our theories about the mind-body problem. In The Shaking Woman, Hustvedt synthesizes her experience and research into a compelling mystery: Who is the shaking woman? In the end, the story she tells becomes, in the words of George Makari, author of Revolution in Mind, "a brilliant illumination for us all."
Reviews: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) reviews The Shaking Woman for The Guardian Lisa Appignanesi reviews The Shaking Woman for The Independent The Observer The Telegraph The Age, Australia The Glasgow Herald Irish Times Seed Magazine Library Journal Scientific American Financial Times Jewish Journal The Morning News Bookreporter.com San Francisco Gate Los Angeles Times Sign On San Diego
Interviews: Siri Hustvedt interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air: Siri interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio Read Siri's interview with AOL Health Read Siri's interview with The Guardian (Download as a PDF) Read Siri's interview with NewScientist.com
"Siri Hustvedt, one of our finest novelists, has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind. But recently this investigation has taken a more personal turn: two years after her father's death, while speaking about him in public, she suddenly found herself seized by convulsions. Was this 'hysteria,' a 'conversion reaction,' or a 'coincidental' attack of epilepsy? The Shaking Woman is the story—provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth—of her attempt to answer this question. It brings together an extraordinary double story: that of Hustvedt's own odyssey of discovery, and of that point where brain and mind, neurology and psychiatry, come together in the realm of neuropsychoanalysis. The odyssey has not cured her, nor led to a conclusion—but Hustvedt's erudite book deepens one's wonder about the relation of body and mind." —Oliver Sacks
"That Siri Hustvedt is a splendid writer is well known. The news is that life conspired to have her seek a working mastery of neuroscience. In her wonderful new book, part memoir, part mystery story, she explains this unexpected turn of events and offers the reader a wealth of valuable facts along with personal perspectives on the neuroscientific scene. Not surprisingly, the book is a pleasure to read." —Antonio Damasio, University of Southern California
"Armed with her great gift for elucidation, the novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt has omnivorously devoured and digested complex debates from neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy and psychoanalysis and journeyed into the mind/body problem. In The Shaking Woman, her quest to understand her own mysterious troubles becomes a brilliant illumination for us all." —George Makari, author of Revolution in Mind
"I was very struck by The Shaking Woman. Not only does it demonstrate nearly complete mastery (by a non-specialist) of the highly specialized field of neuropsychiatry, it also displays greater understanding of the underlying philosophical and historical issues that are at stake in this field than is displayed by most of my colleagues." —Mark Solms, author of Brain and the Inner World
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What I Loved
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What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's–an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.
The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.
"Superb. . .What I Loved is a rare thing, a page turner written at full intellectual stretch, serious but witty, large-minded and morally engaged."—The New York Times Book Review
"So richly imagined is the art in her book that it serves not just to illuminate hidden emotions but also as a subject in itself. . .A wrenching portrait of parental grief, then a psychological thriller, and finally a meditation on the perspective of memory."—Vogue
"A great book. The twinning of narrative pleasure with intellectual rigor isn't rare. In fact, it's easy to find if you're plowing through, say, the Modern Library, engaging with classics that come to you already canonized and annointed. But to stumble into such a relationship with a contemporary. . .writer is a heady feeling. Those of us who read new fiction dream of finding such a book."—Newsday
"No image is wasted, no sentence superfluous in creating a novel that teems with ideas, emotions…. Hustvedt's novel is a quietly astounding work of fiction that defies categorization."—Los Angeles Times
"A remarkable achievement of Siri Hustvedt's prose, with its attention to nuance and intricacy is its demonstration that friendship is a powerful form of intelligence. The book's final pages acknowledge nearly overwhelming loss, but because the reader understands so much, their sadness feels almost like joy."—The Washington Post
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A Plea For Eros
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From the author of the international bestsellerWhat I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.
Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer's mind. Is it possible for a woman in the twentieth century to endorse the corset, and at the same time approach with authority what it is like to be a man? Hustvedt does. Writing with rigorous honesty about her own divided self, and how this has shaped her as a writer, she also approaches the works of others–Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James–with revelatory insight, and a practitioner's understanding of their art.
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The Enchantment Of Lily Dahl
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The protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave. Standing at the threshold of adulthood, she enters a new world of erotic adventure, profound but unexpected friendship, and inexplicable, frightening acts of madness. Lily's story is also the story of a small town–Webster, Minnesota–where people are brought together by a powerful sense of place, both geographical and spiritual. Here gossip, secrets, and storytelling are as essential to the bond among its people as the borders that enclose the town.
The real secret at the heart of the book is the one that lies between reality and appearances, between waking life and dreams, at the place where imagination draws on its transforming powers in the face of death.
"Siri Hustvedt writes, literally, like a dream–a dream that's at once intensely romantic and disturbingly eerie. This dark, sexy, spooky novel is an indelibly memorable fiction. Read it and it will haunt you."—Salman Rushdie
"Highly original…a crystalline blend of innocence and sophistication, irony and candor."—Newsday
"The Enchantment of Lily Dahl has the power to pull readers firmly into its orbit and to keep them there."—The Village Voice
"She writes like a dream."—GQ
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Mysteries of the Rectangle
Mysteries of the RectangleInternational Editions From Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling novel What I Loved, comes this inspired collection of essays on painting. Here, Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco de Goya, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Gerhard Richter, and Joan Mitchell. Hustvedt is concerned with the very act of looking and the limitless rewards to be gleaned from sustained, careful attention. Unlike film and books, which progress over time, "Painting is there all at once," she writes, it is only with patience and repeated viewings that elusive meanings present themselves. Through her own personal experiences, Hustvedt is able to reveal things until now hidden in plain sight: an egg like detail in Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace and the many hidden self-portraits in Goya's series of drawings, Los Caprichos, as well as in his infamous painting The Third of May. Most importantly, these essays exhibit the passion, thrill, and sheer pleasure of bewilderment a work of art can produce—if you simply take the time to look.


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Dissent Primal Deconstruction
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Dissent pulls off the tricky feat of spanning genres without ever really alighting in any one. Zipping from breakbeat to chill out to lots of other things, the duo delivers a dancefloor-friendly sound that's hard to classify but easy to listen to. Standouts include "Fight or Flight," with vocalist Nathalie Sanchez showing off smooth, versatile pipes over tropical-tinged percussion, and "Unison," with its funk-laced optimism. Not everything comes off well-the chorus of "Walk on Black Water" sounds oddly like "Fly Like an Eagle"–but, for the most part, Dissent's fourth full-length proves why they've had such staying power.
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