It's back! After a 2-year COVID absence, Cider Summit returns to Chicago for their 9th annual festival. The region’s largest cider festival vill be featuring nearly 200 ciders including regional favorites and international classics. Team Gregula is hex-cited to be sampling various ciders again in order to give our revealing recommendations to all our riveted readers. Cider Summit Chicago is happening on…
Season's Creepings from Santa Gregula! The most frighteningly festive time of year for holiday horror is here! Several established haunted attractions are scheduled to be open for Cryptmas fears this December. Put down the eggnog and go get the figgy pudding scared out of you! Keep scrolling this putrid post to view my deadly directory of sinfully selected Chicagoland holiday haunts that…
The season of ghoul cheer is almost here! Raising Cane’s is ready to get everyone in the Christmas spirit by recreating a holiday favorite moment from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Legendary comedic star Chevy Chase, better known as Clark Griswold from the beloved holiday classic, vill join Raising Cane’s Founder Todd Graves to “plug in” the holiday light display at 5PM on…
It's that time of year again....2nd Halloween!!!! Not really (haha) but one of our very favorite conventions will be returning next weekend - Days Of The Dead: Chicago. After a fangtastic weekend back in May where we got to meet awesome celebs like Tom Arnold, Henry Thomas and Doug Jones, Days Of The Dead (DOTD) will be returning for their regular November show. DOTD…
Vell, it is that macabre month once again and that means Team Gregula just had to revisit (after a couple years avay) Scream Scene Haunted House located inside the Abandoned Skokie Water Playground that is part of the Skokie Park District. Scream Scene has been a fiendish favorite of ours for several years now and ve lurk forvard to checking out their ominous offering each October. Ve all…
Ghoulish greetings from Count Gregula! Guess vhat? The beast time of year for fear is here once again! This scare season is lurking to be vast, vicked and vild for several established haunted happenings including some brand new ominous offerings scheduled to be open for boo business in 2022. A few fang-tastic fears and fall frights are already getting going this macabre…
The National Restaurant Association Show has finally come back after three looooong years, and Team Gregula (aka Da Count and myself) was hex-cited to be there for our fifth time! It was so good to be able to once again attend the most comprehensive annual trade show servicing the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry on the planet. This cavalcade of deliciousness happened…
Goodbye Wizard World, hello Fan Expo!!! There's things-a-changing in comic conventionland. Our old favorite standby Wizard World Chicago that Team Gregula has been covering since 2007 is no more, but never fear...Fan Expo Chicago is here! Da Count and I were surprised to find out that Fan Expo has a history longer than we thought, actually starting 50 YEARS ago with a…