Mad love to everyone who came out to see Lisa and I at the WildClaw Dance of the Demented! Even though my voice was shot I had lots of fun gawking at mostly-naked ladies and watching Lisa get hit on all night. One of the highlights was catching (amazing) costume designer Thomas Spanos not-so-sneekily taking [...]

Last week I dubbed myself a “crusty old bake sailor” because of my new found love of bake sales. This week end I’m sailing the bake sale seas once more, this time to raise money for Chicago’s fabulous WildClaw Theater.
You may remember that in October I was a judge for their awesome old time radio [...]

First of all, thank you to everyone who stopped by the Arluck’s Tender Bakery table at Arluck Time this past Thursday night. Lisa, Shannon and I (from here on out known as the ladies of Brutal Snack) had so much fun slangin’ cupcakes and educating Chicago’s metal scene about proper French macarons! Thanks to our [...]

If you were to walk by the Chicago Tonight green room last night you would have seen what appeared to be three very different women nervously making conversation over a basket of peanut butter cookies. Had you come inside with us, though, you would have met three people on a similar mission – to de-stigmatize [...]

Toward the end of 2009 planet Earth lost one of the coolest people to ever walk upon it — my friend, Mat Arluck. In the short time I was lucky enough to know him, Mat made me laugh, gave me great advice about black metal, played with Teno, made me feel awesome about my chocolate [...]

Hey Midwest! Catch me  on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight Thursday, January 28th along with Chicago Gluttons and Dana of Real Food Rehab as we discuss eating and blogging in The Big Onion. If you don’t get WTTW in your ‘hood it looks like they post most episodes on their site after they air.
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I wasn’t going to pester you guys with any more Cupcake Wars posts – at least not until Food Network called me to say they loved the show and want to bring it back as Natalie Slater’s Cupcake Wars Starring Natalie Slater. But as I was live-Tweeting the show last night I realized you guys [...]

Crappy crolidays, everyone! Well, my birthday has come and gone — Melisser and I got sweet lady bro tats (I promptly found a way to get mine infected) and I also got a GIANT tattoo on my neck. So now that I’ve officially ruined my life, I have a new recipe for you as well [...]

Remember that time I thought it would be an awesome idea to give away stuff on my blog for 12 days straight? Well, it was an awesome idea, and nearly 300 of you agreed – but I kind of underestimated how much work promoting the giveaway, choosing a winner, and coordinating prizes was going to [...]

As a vegetarian, and an Italian-American I’m not exactly fond of Thanksgiving in its historical context. There are, however, a few undeniably awesome things about this holiday: eating until you fall asleep, not going to work, and Black Friday sales. This year I’m giving you three more reasons to get pumped for Thanksgiving — my [...]