| Charlie Trotter takes 2nd gamble on Vegas
Chicago's own Charlie Trotter is throwing his toque into Las Vegas' fine-dining ring with Restaurant Charlie, slated to open at the Palazzo next month. The 85-seat main dining room will serve seafood-centric dishes a la carte, while the intimate Bar Charlie will dish up sushi, sashimi and other surprises at a long counter seating 18. "We're not trying to do what we do in Chicago -- the 3.5-hour, 12-course experience," Trotter said at the Palazzo's grand opening over the weekend. While seafood is the focus of the new restaurant, Trotter has a treat for high-rolling carnivores. He plans to serve a richly marbled cut of Wagyu beef from an exclusive Japanese purveyor. The 4- to 5-ounce steak will cost about $250. "We'll probably just give people a spoon to eat it," Trotter said.
Dem Scenes: First-timer has fun being wooed
Peggy Peterson, 3114 70th St. said she originally started out in a very small group of Dennis Kucinich supporters. We had to make our own sign. It was kind of sad, she said.
Peterson, who soon defected to the Clinton camp said her son got interested in this years campaign by watching "The Colbert Report" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on the Comedy Central network.
What did he think of his first caucus?
Kind of disorganized, he said, but he intends to caucus in 2012. .
Hillary, Buckeye Girl
If Hillary Clinton were a state, she'd be Ohio. This is a no-frills kind of place, suspicious of glamour. Barack Obama's promise to make politics cool again doesn't necessarily resonate here. Eight presidents came from Ohio, and the coolest was William McKinley. When I grew up in Cincinnati, we always rooted for the players who worked really, really hard, not the ones who were so talented they made everything look easy. If Hillary were a baseball player, she'd be Pete Rose. Minus, of course, the unfortunate gambling issues and the tendency to scratch inappropriate places while standing in the infield. So there she was Wednesday here in Zanesville, holding an economic summit in a gymnasium with a huge table stuffed full of participants, including the founder of Weight Watchers; former Senator John Glenn, the heroic astronaut who once put the entire Democratic presidential convention to sleep with his keynote speech; and the governor of Ohio, a vice presidential hopeful who looks like an unidentified passer-by.
Inches of snow wallop Iowans yet again
The Des Moines police and fire dispatch center readied itself in the calm before Tuesday afternoon's rush hour.
Ann Moeller and Nick Giampolo, both senior public safety dispatchers, sat feet from each other. The phone board in front of them slowly came to life, a red dot signifying another accident, dispute or complaint.
"You hit a building?" Giampolo asked, holding the phone against his left shoulder. "Do you need an ambulance?"
The chatter was typical of what occurred in many dispatch centers across Iowa. Most of the state on Tuesday was under a winter storm warning that wasn't expected to expire until noon today.
Des Moines could see anywhere between 5 and 9 inches of snow on the ground; areas to the southeast could see up to foot or more.
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