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Alinea
Very limited [i.e., one or two] reservations are still available for early seatings (beginning at 5pm) for a one-night-only 10-course $195 tasting menu (The late seating, offering the 15-course $275 menu, is fully booked): 312-867-0110.

Balsan
The edgier Elysian restaurant will serve its regular menu (veal heart, testa cake, pork sausage, duck breast) on NYE. Average main course: $22. Reservations available 5–10:30pm: 312-646-1400.

Bistro Campagne
Classic and inviting bistro fare from chef Michael Altenberg. Limited reservations are available at 6pm and after 10pm: 773-271-6100.

BlackbirdBlackbird reviews
Chef de cuisine Mike Sheerin’s trailblazing Mangalitsa pig dinner will be available in addition to the regular menu. Mangalitsa tasting: $125; average main course: $32. Limited reservations still available on the early side: 312-715-0708.

Boka
Giussepe Tentori serves best-ofs: Maine diver sea scallops with celery root risotto and crispy pig tail; Kobe beef short rib; warm flourless chocolate cake and black truffle ice cream (subject to change). Three-course prix-fixe: $65. Reservations still available for 5:30 seating; 8:30pm seating is sold out: 312-337-6070.

Le Bouchon
The French bistro will serve a four-course, $60 menu. Limited reservations are available early and late: 773-862-6600. If you can’t get in, La Sardine is about half-booked and is serving an à la carte NYE dinner: 312-421-2800.

Cibo Matto
Chef Todd Stein’s regular menu or an indulgent $125 prix-fixe, featuring truffled pasta or rissotto and scallops paired with foie gras,will be offered. Average main course: $30. Early seatings (5–6pm) and late seatings (after 10pm) are still available: 312-239-9500.

Epic
I haven’t been yet, but chef Stephen Wambach’s menu looks like a Chicago incarnation of Laurent Tourondel’s BLT empire, which would make it a lavish place to ring in the new year. Epic will be serving its regular, à la carte menu. Average main course:$35. Reservations available before 9pm: (312) 222-4940.

The Gage
The downtown gastropub will serve the regular menu with some special-occasion-worthy specials like veal chops and Maine lobster. Average main course: $24. Reservations available: 312-372-4243.

Graham Elliot
Bowles is closing his restaurant Dec 24–27 and Jan 1–15, which means if you want to eat there, you basically have to go on New Year’s. The restaurant’s offering an early seating (a $79 four-course prix-fixe at 6pm) and a late seating (a $129 eight-course prix-fixe, including a sparkling cocktail, beginning at 8:45pm). Very limited reservations are available for the later seating, and a handful for the earlier one: 312-624-9975.

Hopleaf
No reservations, nothing special, just your average, wonderful night at Hopleaf.

L2o
A meal any time of year at Laurent Gras’s seafood paradise feels like a celebration. Take advantage of either of the regularly-available menus on NYE. Average degustation: $110. Reservations available after 10pm: 773-868-0002.

Mado
Reservations are still available for both seatings of Mado’s NYE family-style dinner, which is built around a Gran Bollito Misto: a Northern Italian celebratory dish of simmered meats (veal breast, beef shank, cotechino sausage, chicken, beef tongue) garnished with salsa verde, horseradish cream and mostarda. $100. 6pm and 9pm seatings: 773-342-2340.

May Street Market
A Bavarian-cream-doughnut canapé, butter-poached lobster, oh my! A five-course early seating starts at 5pm ($65); the six-course late seating at 8pm ($75). Reservations still available for both: 312-421-5547.

Mixteco Grill
Wahoo—BYOB dining on New Year’s! Mixteco will be serving the regular menu and a variety of specials. Seatings are available at 5:30pm, 7:30pm and 9:30pm and reservations are a must. The 7:30 seating is almost fully booked: 773-868-1601.

Nightwood
Since I picked Lula’s sibling for one of our Meals of the Decade, it might behoove you to eat there. If you’re a party of two looking to eat between 6 and 7pm…Good luck: 312-526-3385.

North Pond
Bruce Sherman is offering a a seven-course prix-fixe for $120. Reservations are still available for before 7pm and after 9pm: 773-477-5845.

PerennialPerennial Dreams reviews
Menu is yet to be determined; be surprised and hopefully wowed. First seating at 5:30pm (three-course, $55); second seating at 8:30pm (limited spots available, five-course including champagne toast $75): 312 981-7070.

ProvinceProvince reviews
Chef Randy Zweiban’s regular menu, plus some seafood-focused specials, will be served. Also: a holiday spiced-rum creation called Auld Lang Syne. Average main course: $17. Reservations available: 312-669-9900.

SepiaSepia reviews
A few reservations remain for Sepia’s early seating (beginning at 5:30pm), where the four-course menu features a kobocha squash sformato, a duo of Wagyu beef and a Maracaibo chocolate mousse. $65, 312-441-1920.

Takashi
Limited early seating (reservations at 5, 5:30, 6 and 6:30pm) is still available for chef Takashi Yagihashi’s five-course dinner, featuring a lobster amuse, trio of pates, roasted foie gras with quince and more indulgences. $70. 773-772-6170.

Taxim
Six courses of some of the most interesting Greek food in the city, including wood-grilled octopus, housemade lamb sausage and a slice of vasilopita (the traditional Greek New Year’s cake). Music, dancing and party favors begin at 9pm. $65 from 5–8pm; $95 from 8:15–10:30pm. Reservations available: 773-252-1558.

Vie
Chef Paul Virant serves a five-course prix-fixe. Highlight: a rockstar surf-and-turf duo with wood-grilled Dietzler Farm rib-eye and Alaskan king crab. $100 (includes champagne and amuse upon arrival). Reservations available 4:30pm–9:45pm: 708-246-2082.

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Been seeing these posters around town lately?

Co-owners Bruce Finkelman and Peter Toalson (The Empty Bottle), Cody Hudson (a Chicago-based designer) and Robert McAdams (Mode Carpentry) have brought on Jared Wentworth, a Kendall College grad who’s returning to Chicago from Quinn’s in Seattle, as the chef for their bar-restaurant-inn concept, Longman & Eagle (2657 N Kedzie Ave, 773-276-7110). (Remember? We’ve been stalking it.)

The restaurant is slated to open in late January, 2010, with six “no-frills, no-service” rooms available for lodging come spring. Wentworth’s affordable gastropub menu features housemade pork sausage, a wild-boar “sloppy Joe,” braised veal breast and more. A boutique wine list, draft beer and a craft-beer list are also in store. Check out the fried clam bellies and the rest of the food menu after the jump.

BAR SNACKS

• House-marinated olives – $4.00
• Brandade, duck fat-fried potato chips – $6.00
• Kobe meatballs, creamy polenta, parsley pesto, fonduta – $6.00
• Chickpea fries, spicy harissa ketchup – $4.00
• Artisanal cheese selection, fruit mostarda, tartines – 1 oz: $3.00 / 4 oz: $10.00

SALADS & SANDWICHES

• Kobe burger, aged English cheddar, Nueske’s bacon, beef fat fries, brioche – 8 oz: $12.00
• Wild boar sloppy Joe, crispy sage, onion, pickled jalapeño – $11.00
• Housemade pork sausage, 12-hour sauerkraut, shaved apple-watercress salad, mustard – $9.00
• Pear and fig salad, endive, green beans, Stilton, cress, sherry-walnut vinaigrette – $9.00
• Baby arugula, goat cheese, candied walnuts, roasted beets, warm bacon vinaigrette – $8.00
• Organic mixed greens, fine herbs, sea salt, Meyer lemon vinaigrette – $6.00
  

PLATES

• Seared Maine scallop, braised oxtails, potato gnocchi, fontina fonduta – $12.00
• Housemade charcuterie, country rabbit pâté, potted duck rillettes, foie-chicken liver mousse – $13.00
• Potato agnolotti, escargots, wild mushrooms, bordelaise sauce, cured foie gras – $11.00
• Ricotta gnudi, porcini marmalade, crispy sage, aerated Parmesan – $7.00
• Sunnyside-up duck egg, beef tongue hash, black truffle vinaigrette – $9.00
• Smoked sweetbreads, salsify, roasted beet, brown butter applesauce – $10.00
• Roasted marrow bones, red onion jam, sea salt, sourdough croutons – $9.00
• Fried Ipswich clam bellies, celery root rémoulade, toasted brioche, mâche – $9.00
• Sunchoke velouté, Nantucket bay scallops, preserved lemon, parsley oil – $9.00
  

ENTREES

• Pork belly confit, pumpkin risotto, chestnuts, apple, soy-caramel broth – $18.00
• Butter-roasted catfish, collard greens, grits, okra, ham hock-truffle relish – $16.00
• Crispy-skinned chicken breast, pommes fourchettes, chanterelles, cipollini onion – $15.00
• Bouillabaisse, market shell and finfish, saffron-infused lobster broth, rouille – $17.00
• Charmoula-spiced tuna loin, cannellini bean ragoût, black trumpets, foie broth – $22.00
• Braised Slagel Family Farm veal breast, piggy Brussels sprouts, cheek manicotti – $17.00
• Slow-roasted cauliflower, beluga lentils, caramelized onion, golden raisins, mango, cucumber raita – $15.00
• Grilled natural beef short rib, warm potato-shiitake terrine, grilled green onions, red wine-stewed shallots – $18.00
  

DESSERTS

• Classic crème brûlée, plum compote, langue du chat cookies – $6.00
• Chocolate banana bread pudding, vanilla bean ice cream, bourbon caramel – $7.00
• Blueberry financier, Meyer lemon curd, buttermilk sorbet – $6.00

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The Kobe and Lebron puppet commercials had everyone laughing during the 2009 NBA Playoffs (especially with Lil Dez), so Nike decided to go even harder with the campaign this season. This new commercial is a Christmas edition and features Lupe Fiasco as a rapping Blitzen the reindeer, and he goes in…

“The thrill of victory is something that you never feel, something elves can’t build”

It’s getting serious!!

Also don’t forget about the Nike x UNDFTD puppet tees that just dropped this weekend. The UNDFTD colorways sold out with the quickness, but the Nike colorways are still readily available. Cop yours now.

-john-

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Kobe Bryant & Deray Davis

Kobe Bryant & Wife

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In what proved to be an elegant finale to their month-long courtship, Khloe Kardashian wed Los Angeles Laker Lamar Odom Sunday evening at a private residence in Beverly Hills, PEOPLE confirms.

At 5:12 p.m., Kardashian, 25, walked down the outdoor aisle in a Vera Wang gown on the arm of her stepfather, Bruce Jenner, with sisters Kim and a pregnant Kourtney at her side.

Black-Tie

Khloe’s bridal party included half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, actresses (and twin sisters) Khadijah and Malika Haqq and actress Lauren London.

Cameras rolled for a future episode of E!’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians as 250 guests – including the show’s producer Ryan Seacrest, Kelly Osbourne, Odom’s Laker teammate Kobe Bryant, with his wife Vanessa, and TV personalities Chelsea Handler, Lara Spencer, Brittny Gastineau and Lala Vazquez – looked on.

Guests began arriving at the black-tie affair (at which BlackBerrys were banned) more than an hour in advance for a pre-wedding reception. A ten-piece orchestra played during the ceremony, held on the grounds of the home of music mogul Irving Azoff, a family friend. The flowers for the ceremony were all-white.

Nightclub Theme

Wedding planner Sharon Sacks created the Hollywood nightclub-themed reception that followed in a tent on the property, fitted with dark wooden walls, white carpeting, silver mirrors and chandeliers. Guests dined at glass and wood tables decorated with lavish centerpieces of white and lavender flowers. A DJ was booked to keep the party going until 11:00 p.m.

Elegant white and silver invitations went out to guests just days before the ceremony, hosted by Khloe’s mom Kris Jenner and her stepdad. Also among those who attended were Luke Walton, Phil Jackson, Mitch Kupchak and Sasha Vujacic.

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Mixtape Tracks

• 1.Intro
  
• 2.Ludacris-OG’s Theme
  
• 3.Rox-Danger
  
• 4.Tone Trump-Wifey
  
• 5.IlldotLogic-Hydroplane
  
• 6.Big Mike Checks In
  
• 7.Billy Blue Featuring Akon-Story Of My Life
  
• 8.Black Dada Featuring Rick Ross & Birdman-Imma Zoe (Remix)
• 9.Paper Route Gangstaz-Keyshia Cole
• 10.Souf East Featuring Bobby Valentino-I Do That
  
• 11.Triple Cs Featuring Rick Ross & Young Jeezy-Everyday
• 12.Murph Featuring Rick Ross-Gotta Get Paid
  
• 13.Metro Featuring E-40 & Young Buck-I Might Go
  
• 14.Lil Wayne-Million Dolla Baby
  
• 15.Calico Jonez Featuring Soulja Boy-I Fucked Yo Bitch
• 16.Fabolous Featuring Kobe-I’mma Do It
• 17.Fabolous Featuring Kobe-I’mma Do It
  
• 18.2Pac2pac reviews Featuring Snoop Dogg-If Theres A Cure (I Don’t Want It)
  
• 19.Mase Featuring Cam’ron & Da Kid Rossy-Get It
• 20.OJ Da Juiceman-Gimme Twenty Dollars
• 21.Nas-Film
  
• 22.The Game-I’m So Wavy
• 23.Outro

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