James "Andy" Pierce and Robert Loerzel's The Uptown: Chicago's Endangered Movie Place, is hitting the big time, as the book is now available on Barnes and Noble Dot Com. If you are frugal but want to support the authors' amazing work, the book is $10 cheaper from the publisher's site. [...]

 *sounds best in Mario voice.If you like Ragadan, you're in for a treat.Ragadan's owner and chef Daniel Sweis has been busy working late at night turning the old Miso Restaurant into "A Pizza Pie," his new foray into pizza making. (No website as of yet).We first noticed some work ongoing at Miso in early April, and a small "A Pizza Pie" sign appeared shortly after. Some detective work led us to Ragadan, and the rest is, as they say, history.We hadn't published since we had no official confirmation of the opening, but it appears they are soft open today (menu at [...]