chicago movie

True crime has always been a thing. Back in the 1920s, all of Chicago was obsessed with the celebrity criminals of Murderess Row -- so obsessed that a Chicago Tribune reporter wrote a play about them, which became the 1975 musical Chicago, and the 2002 Best Picture-winning film Chicago.

Our Curious Cocktail this week is the Southside:

• Ingredients:
  • 1.5 oz gin
  • 1 oz lime juice
  • .5 oz simple syrup
  • Kind of a lot of mint
• Muddle the mint with the simple syrup or sugar in the bottom of a shaker
• Add the gin and lime and shake with ice
• Strain into a tall glass with fresh ice
• Top with sparkling water

This week, we're curious about catnip, Hot Cat Summer, Golden Girls Summer, briffits, plewds and grawlixes, washing your face, fairy trails, Kevin Truong's Mai American, and of course, Muppet Girl Summer.

Selected sources:

• The Girls Of Murder City by Douglas Perry
• https://nypost.com/2010/08/08/the-girls-of-murder-city/
• https://www.silkstreetjazz.co.uk/jazz-age-cocktails-every-bootlegger-would-be-proud-of/
• https://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/beaulahandbelva/

Come on babe, why don't we paint the town? And by "paint the town" we mean watch a movie. Specifically "Chicago," the semi-controversial pick for Best Picture. The source material is excellent. The movie is a star-studded event type film that everyone loves to sing along to. So what's the harm in giving it a watch? We paired it with Block Nine 2019 Pinot Noir from California, which ended up being a good bottle. I feel like I need to say "and all that jazz."

Movie Sync Notes: We watch the Diamond Edition of the movie on Amazon Prime. We don't think this edition has a different run time than the original. We start "Chicago" 4:45 into the pod, and push play on part two 1:13:05 into the pod.