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Imagine a room filled with Chicago’s most notable chefs creating dishes inspired by some of your favorite childhood and lunchtime meals. Now mark your calendars for May 15 because dreams really do come true at the Chefs' Playground! Find out how you can WIN TICKETS to this great event!

Check out photos from the advanced screening for the CNN Original Series "Chicagoland" and the after party at The Underground!

Woody’s Winter Warm-Up is a great way to kick off 2014 and celebrate Cubs Convention Weekend. Once again we will have local celebrities and media personalities guest bartending and competing for tips to help raise money for the Wood Family Foundation. Stop by and try our special tequila cocktail Harry Caray’s is serving up at all locations called “Woody’s Smokin Pitch” that will give proceeds back to the foundation. In addition, we will have a silent auction with a lot of sports memorabilia and unique experiences.

There’s an un-holiday for every ridiculous thing you can think of. National Dress Up Your Pet Day, Squirrel Lovers Day, Sports Wives Appreciation Day. Heck, there’s even a day for people with two different colored eyes! But on this day, January 16, Americans recognize the most ludicrous holiday of them all, National Nothing Day. A day dedicated to the idea that “nothing is possible.” A day that insults the “make-it-happen spirit” that Chicagoans embody 365 days of the year.

My husband David may have been traded to another team, but that does not stop us from returning home and hosting a charity fundraiser with his former teammates. The David DeJesus Family Foundation has teamed up with Cubs Charities to host “Strike a Chord” Celebrity Karaoke to benefit ALS research, a disease which has affected our close friend Brian Schnurstein. The event will feature David, myself, Ryan Chiaverini (Windy City LIVE), Jeff Hoover (WGN), B96 Morning Show team, Danni Allen (winner of Biggest Loser) and Cubs players teaming up with local media personalities and Chicagoans to compete on the microphone. In addition to cocktails, food will be provided by American Junkie, Chicago Q, Siena Tavern, Wow Bao and GT Fish & Oyster.

So, the Bears didn’t make it to the playoffs this year (insert sad face,) but you can help spread some good juju for next year and help a film come to fruition. "Bear Down" the documentary produced and directed by Chicago local Joseph Martinez is a true account of the relationships and family bonds surrounding the dedication of the game. The film is inspired by his own personal attributes with his father and enjoying games.

Ladies! Grab your girlfriends for an evening of shopping, pampering and more THIS SUNDAY at the Sassy City Chicks shopping event from 12-5pm at the Double Tree Magnificent Mile.

The holiday’s are upon us and we at Spare Time Inc. are excited to do our part by helping those in need and spreading the holiday love. That’s why Friday, November 15th, we launched a company wide “Holiday Canned Food Drive” to benefit a local South Side homeless shelter. The drive will end a week or so before Christmas!

Brace yourselves my deprived chocolate connoisseurs because the World of Chocolate Gala offers a taste of both sweet and savory creations by chefs, chocolatiers and caterers from Chicago, all in the name of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.

Be a Hero! Do your part while enjoying a great night out at Legacy's 6th Annual Autism Speaks Heroes Ball. Join Host Ted Brunson and Chicago’s most social and generous young professionals. Billy Dec and Rockit Ranch Productions have generously supported the Autism Speaks Heroes Ball since its inception in 2008 and we couldn’t thank them enough! Read up on all of the exciting details surrounding the event below.