Chicago condos probably seem a great place to hide out during this snowy winter storm. However, Chicagoans know that the snow doesn’t stop anything in this city. So here are the best things to do in Chicago this weekend, despite the snow!
EventsWell, yes, the Lady Gaga and Jason Derulo show at the Rosemont Theatre is sold out Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. BUT if you can snag tickets from CraigsList or a friend, we think it would be worth going just to see something weird like this:
Did you make a resolution to be more fit this year? Well, how about an untraditional midnight yoga class at Bloom Studio in Lincoln Park? The late night class might be just what you need to kick-start your new routine.
Need to laugh away this ridiculous weather? Try swinging by the Chicago Sketch Festival, running all weekend. Tickets are $12.50 and you might see the next Saturday Night Live star get their start!
Restaurants
The Hopleaf in Andersonville will help you write the next great American novel this weekend by hosting Drinking and Writing: To Cure a Hangover. Writers Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda read/perform writing of their own intertwined with the prose of Bukowski and Cheever, notorious drinker-writers. You sit back and watch, have a beer, and get inspired. Plus, “audience-participation bits are rewarded with free drinks.” $15.
This weekend, check out The Purple Pig that just opened on Michigan Avenue, brought to you by the people behind Heaven on Seven and Mia Francesca. This restaurant has an extensive wine list and just about any pork dish you’d want try. Bacon for all!
Does this weather make you feel you should be out on the slopes? Well, then swing by the Aspen Ski Lodge party at Faith & Whiskey in Lincoln Park. Don’t forget to wear your fluorescent 80s ski gear! No cover.
Movies
If you missed Where The Wild Things Are in theaters, go see it this weekend at the Music Box in Lakeview, where it originally premiered!
See Heath Ledger is his final role in Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It opened over Christmas, so if you’ve been busy since then, this would be a great weekend to see it.
Sick of the teeny-bopper incarnation of vampires that Twilight has served up? Try the horror-thriller Daybreakers which features a world filled with vampires, starring Ethan Hawke.
Well, we hope some of these events will pull our out of your Chicago condo this weekend– Getting snowed in is bad, but staying in just because of a little snow is worse!
