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Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: Best food writing 2017 and Kurt Vonnegut on the shape of stories
　　Kurt Vonnegut on the shape of stories 　　This 4 minute 30 second clip from Kurt Vonnegut taught me more about storytelling than any book or writing class. [Kevin Pang] 　　Best food writing of 2017 　　Need some weekend reading? Good, because The Gannet’s best food writing of the year list is...
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Last Call: Best food writing 2017 and Kurt Vonnegut on the shape of stories
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: The New Yorker's viral sensation and a stunning love letter to Hong Kong
　　“Cat Person”Have you read Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” in the New Yorker yet? You haven’t?! OK, carve out two hours for it tonight. I say two hours not because it takes two hours to read (although it’s the New Yorker, so it’s not brief), but because, like any...
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Last Call: <i>The New Yorker's</i> viral sensation and a stunning love letter to Hong Kong
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: Annual Williams-Sonoma catalog hatefest and hack your way to better sleep
　　Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Holiday Catalog 　　Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG 　　It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the day when Drew Magary drops his annual Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma holiday catalog! The 2017 edition does not disappoint, sending up such items as the Nordicware Nutcracker Cakelet Pan...
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Last Call: Annual Williams-Sonoma catalog hatefest and hack your way to better sleep
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: An overlooked Christmas movie, a gripping podcast, and the best holiday album
　　Just Friends 　　My favorite Christmas movie is one that often gets overlooked: Just Friends. Yes, it’s the Ryan Reynolds in a fat suit movie. In high school, Chris (Reynolds) is in love with his best friend Jaime (Amy Smart), then grows up into a handsome record executive. Chris gets stuck...
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Last Call: An overlooked Christmas movie, a gripping podcast, and <i>the best</i> holiday album
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: Warm hot dog vending machines and how they make real-looking plastic food
　　Warm hot dog vending machines of yore 　　Until now, my favorite non-traditional vending machine was the pink Benefit one parked in airports to save the lives of women like me who forgot to pack mascara for their vacation. But now I have a new beau: the warm hot dog vending...
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Last Call: Warm hot dog vending machines and how they make real-looking plastic food
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: ’70s recipes, a happy song with Rivers Cuomo, and an unfathomable magic trick
　　@70sdinnerparty on Instagram 　　Sometimes I need to seek out new Instagram accounts just to break up the constant scroll of black lab puppies in my feed (don’t judge). This week my discovery is @70sdinnerparty, an account devoted to the most horrifying creations of a pretty weird culinary decade. Shrimp aspic...
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Last Call: ’<em></em>70s recipes, a happy song with Rivers Cuomo, and an unfathomable magic trick
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: Grandma's amazing butter cookies and anime vegetable suicide
　　Oma’s spritzgebäck 　　This week I’ve eaten an entire tin of my Oma’s Christmas cookies, which my brother and I guilt trip her into mailing us each December. My favorite are her spritzgebäck, butter cookies piped into the shape of wreaths and dipped half in chocolate. I could easily eat these...
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Last Call: Grandma's amazing butter cookies and anime vegetable suicide
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: The Magicians and a magician
　　The Magicians 　　A pre-holiday virus has struck my family, requiring me to dive deeper into my usual streaming options. Last week, I inflicted the Netflix royal romance movie A Christmas Prince on my daughter; this week, my son and I discovered the first two seasons of The Magicians, also on...
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Last Call: <i>The Magicians </i>and a magician
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: It's A Wonderful Life, Kosher wine, and Julia Child sucks at making a yule log
　　It’s A Wonderful Life 　　All right, apparently I was jumping the gun yesterday by letting my too-young kids watch The Magicians. Good to know! Last night my daughter and I went to see a movie at the Music Box, Chicago’s awesome vintage theater, that no one should have a problem...
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Last Call: <i>It's A Wonderful Life</i>, Kosher wine, and Julia Child sucks at making a yule log
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: Tell us what we're doing right (or wrong!)
　　Howdy, The Takeout readers, it’s your boy editor Kevin Pang here. Our staff is going to take a few days off for the holidays—though you’ll still be seeing new stories! 　　But before we leave, we wanted to first wish you the happiest of whatever holiday you celebrate, and to sincerely...
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Last Call: Tell us what we're doing right (or wrong!)
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: Turning craft beer skeptics into believers and The War on Drugs on KEXP
　　Turning craft beer skeptics into believers 　　Craftbeer.com, a publication of the independent brewers trade group called Brewers Association, wants you to, essentially, “convert” a craft beer skeptic this holiday season. The piece reads: “You approach 10 craft beers aligned with taps all aglow, and you hear a person from your...
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Last Call: Turning craft beer skeptics into believers and The War on Drugs on KEXP
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: Stupid beavers and 2017 news bloopers
　　Stupid beavers 　　Beavers are giant pains in the asses. I mean, they’re cute and they have their places in ecosystems and blah blah blah, but they can also be a major nuisance. The latest in beaver bad behavior? According to this piece in The New York Times, they’re gentrifying Alaska...
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Last Call: Stupid beavers and 2017 news bloopers
Sep 13, 2025
Last Call: Castle in the Sky and 2 hours of funktastic Afrobeat
　　Castle In The Sky 　　Continuing my series of how to distract children during winter break: Luckily for me, Chicago’s Music Box Theater kicked off a Studio Ghibli festival the day after Christmas, a tribute to the famed Japanese animation studio. Yesterday we saw Castle In The Sky, one that wasn’t...
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Last Call: <i>Castle in the Sky</i> and 2 hours of funktastic Afrobeat
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