Articles by Jacqueline Keer

Fogo de Chao Review - Where Your Meat Dreams Come True

Fogo de Chao is a “Churrascaria”, or Brazilian steak house, which began as a successful Brazilian chain and expanded to the U.S. Churrasco is "the Gaucho way of preparing meat”, a style that originated with cowboys in southern Brazil

GAIAM Clothing Review - New Spring Line -- please delete this

GAIAM offers a lively, colorful new clothes collection for spring. The clothes are made of organic cotton, and the line has items that can be used for yoga and other sports, as cover-ups, or both

Qupe Wines and Flemings Review - A Collaborative Wine Pairing

A recent collaborative wine pairing event, hosted by Fleming's and Connoisseur Wines, featured wines from Qupe, a winery in California's Central Coast that specializes in the French Rhone style

GAIAM Clothing Review - New Spring Line

GAIAM offers a new lively, colorful, eco-friendly wardrobe for spring, with clothes made of cotton, sustainable bamboo and high-performance recycled polyester. The collection includes yoga/fitness apparel, sport cover-ups and dress options

Three new Yoga DVDs from Gaiam Review - Gwen Lawrence, Trudie Styler and Seane Corn

Gaiam offers Gwen Lawrence’s Fit Body Yoga, Seane Corn’s Detox Flow Yoga and Trudie Styler’s Strengthen & Restore Yoga & mobile app. Three great approaches to greater strength, increased flexibility and overall fitness

Katz's Delicatessen Review -- A Classic New York Experience

Katz’s Delicatessen, at the corner of Houston and Ludlow streets in the Lower East Side, is a confluence of food, history, and atmosphere that could only exist in New York.

Fleming's Review - You Won't Find a Better Steak

We arrived at Fleming's on one of the coldest days in recent memory, a frigid day which required layered clothing and strength of character, and as soon as we walked into Fleming’s, we began to warm up physically and psychologically

Benny's Chop House Review - Upscale Simplicity

We arrived at Benny’s Chop House just three days after the third-worst blizzard in a city with a vast history of snowstorms, and walked into a restaurant that was warm and inviting.

Everest Restaurant Review – A Chicago Restaurant You Should Know

Everest is a Chicago restaurant you REALLY should know - it was even better than we remembered

Archery Summit at MK Review - An Evening of Discovery

We were thrilled to be guests at MK Restaurant for an evening of pairings between several courses prepared at the restaurant, and selected vintages of Archery Summit wines.

Bonsoiree Review - A Creative Feast for the Senses-A Chicago Restaurant You Should Know

Tucked away in a low-slung building in a nondescript corner of Logan Square, Bonsoiree offers a creative feast for the senses in a remarkably casual, BYOB environment.

Magnolia Review - Don't Forget the Roots

Magnolia, the world premiere of a play by Regina Taylor, contextualizes race relations in the U.S, through the effective rendering of multi-faceted characters and a robust mise-en-scene.

Rod Blagojevich Superstar Review – “Boss” meets “The Untouchables” in Second City at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Anyone who’s lived in Chicago for a while, or even skimmed Mike Royko’s “Boss,” knows that the Chicago Machine is populated with a cast of characters that are Shakespearean in the scope of their tragic flaws.

"Art" Review - Don't know art, but I know what I like

“Art”, a one-act satire by French playwright Yasmina Reza, poses fascinating questions about the relationship of art and rationality

Sweet William Review - Investigation of the Mysteries of Shakespeare

The wonder and the frustration of interpreting the context of Shakespeare’s work is that the myth is so large, and factual history so scarce, that his body of work has become iconic and the man himself a source of endless speculation.