Cuckoo For Coq Au Vin

Chicago's first French specialty store, Coq Au Vin is opening today.

Satiate that craving for saucisson (so zis saison) and cheer up your palate with a free wine and cheese tasting. Coq Au Vin means rooster in wine in French and The Chicago Girl is hoping this hen-picked event will be somewhere where you can feather your nest.

Coq Au Vin Grand Opening

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: 2256 N Elston Ave Chicago 60614 (see map)

Dress code: Casual

Set To Swing

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Goldstar is an online email service that posts events at half price.

I found this 4-session swing class for $30. They even give user ratings so you can decide whether to spend half price or not at all. That's not too shabby. I'm paying $50 for a 4-session salsa class right now.

My First First Friday

Tomorrow will be my first time going to "First Fridays" at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Do two firsts make a second? I don't know, but I hope they don't make a third so said the two virgins.

http://www.mcachicago.org/programs/ff.php?page=friday

Tickets are $10 online plus a $3 handling fee. What exactly do they handle?
$15 at the door

Modern Art Skating

Come February, you'll have an excuse for falling at the Millenium Park ice rink.

"I'm seriously a good skater, I was just looking at the art."

Grab your skates, your man or your girls and marvel at "The Museum of Modern Ice" installation. The colored ice wall installation, "Paintings Below Zero," will be 95 x 12 feet of frozen fierceness.

For now, I'll be dancing away the below-zero blues at salsa lessons.
http://www.laboriqua.com/
Classes start today, I'll let you know how it goes.