by Man Up Chicago | Sep 7, 2011 | finance, Politics, Q&A, Women
On September 8, 2008, Wall Street was embarking on a week from hell, and the U.S. was beginning its very public (and unfinished) journey into financial instability. During that fateful week three years ago, reports of Lehman Brothers’ demise were not greatly...
by Man Up Chicago | Jul 18, 2011 | Dating, Q&A, Women
The most damning piece of evidence that Newt Gingrich was not fit to make run at the presidency was his six-figure credit line at Tiffany & Co. The leader of the free world needs to have creativity to solve modern problems, and clearly in his personal life,...
by Man Up Chicago | Jul 11, 2011 | Fashion, Q&A
Aaron Firestein, Founder and Creative Director of BucketFeet, has a business story that will hopefully encourage people to take entrepreneurial chances and encourage more entrepreneurs to give back. What we don’t hope is that encourages a bunch of unskilled people to...
by Man Up Chicago | Jun 15, 2011 | Fatherhood, Q&A
As hard as we’ve tried to get exclusive access to how Arnold Schwarzenegger will be celebrating this Father’s Day, we’ve been stonewalled (by robots sent from the future) at every turn. So we’ve resorted to plan b and shifted our Father’s Day focus to three new...
by Man Up Chicago | May 16, 2011 | Music, Q&A
Despite television’s and Hollywood’s frequent attempts to gussy up and dramatize the legal profession (Franklin and Bash anyone?), most of the real-life attorneys we know have jobs that are about as enthralling as anyone else’s. But when we met Josh Kaplan, a...
by Man Up Chicago | Mar 20, 2011 | Drinking, Q&A
Like many, we keep a bottle of bitters in our home bar. We do it because certain drinks call for a dash of bitters — most notably a Manhattan — and yet for the longest time, we never truly understood what purpose they served in cocktail construction. So to...