Part 1, and part 2. Some video from the recent Portland Uke Fest; definitely worth checking out the articles just for that.
Chicago Trader Vic's opening in October...?If you check out Trader Vic's news page, you will see an item from last week indicating that the new Chicago Trader Vic's will open in October; i.e., in three months. That's a pretty surprising turn of events, given that it's been years since the original location in the Palmer House Hilton closed. You'd think that Trader Vic's would be drumming up the publicity about the impending opening. So maybe it's not a completely done deal yet.
At any rate, it'll be very interesting to see what happens in October. Hopefully the opening will not be the weekend of October 10-11, because that clashes with the annual convention of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association in Joliet, which I suspect I may be attending in some fashion. More on this later. (Ooh, exciting!)