Doughnut Day | Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich

Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich from Dunkin' Donuts
LP: Are we going to lose credibility because Dunkin' Donuts was out of glazed doughnuts and gave us bacon and egg on a plain one instead?
BD: I think we're going to gain credibility. We went off menu. I only wish we had made it more Xtreme (or Flavor Blasted, if you will) with a chocolate glazed or jelly donut.
JM: Is this frankensteined sammy really all that extreme? Bacon is on all the artisanal doughnuts. And they've actually taken a doughnut and enriched it, adding much-needed protein in the form of eggs and bacon.
LP: Granted, it would be "healthier" to get the egg whites and turkey sausage, but that's like saying smoking American Spirits is "healthier" than Marlboro Reds.
BD: The only wonder is that it took this long for Dunkin' to make this. It's not that far off from their other sandwiches. In a world of Doritos Locos Tacos and Double Downs, is this really that crazy?
JM: So on first bite, it's not really exceptional in any way, bad or good. There's a decent sweet-salty thing happening. A cake doughnut is a good substitute for bread, but don't tell your doctor that.
LP: I'm actually surprised how innocuous this is. In fact—as a connoisseur of the Dunkin' Donuts Bacon, Egg and Cheese Sandwich, a.k.a. a #5—I welcome this departure from a super chewy, kinda dry bagel.
BD: I was pleasantly surprised to really taste the egg, and is that a hint of cracked pepper I detect? But anyway, they really need to change their slogan from "America Runs on Dunkin'." Nobody is jogging around the block after eating this mess.
LP: Maybe "American Ambles Slowly on Dunkin' (With Labored Breath)"? Speaking of slow, this reminds me of when Paula Deen popped 'ludes and made a burger with two doughnuts in lieu of buns.
BD: There is a Baskin Robbins in the same space. You know, we could ask for a scoop of Mint Chocolate Chip on top.
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Two not-to-be-missed cookbook events

Tonight: Adam Rapoport (Bon Appétit)
Whether you're a grilling novice or spend your summer perfecting techniques you saw on BBQ U, you'll learn something from Bon Appétit's new cookbook, The Grilling Book: The Definitive Guide. Rapoport, the magazine's editor, is grilled (heh heh) by Daniel Gerzina, editor of Eater Chicago, as appetizers and cocktails from the new cookbook are made available for purchase. Plus, if you haven't yet been to Parson's, it's time to get on that. Parson's Chicken & Fish, 7pm.
Sunday: Rohan Anderson
Sometimes readings can be mind-numbingly boring. You find your attention drifting elsewhere, your eyes fixed on the clock. If only something interesting would happen, you think…like someone skinning a rabbit. That's what's going down at Rohan Anderson's very unboring reading for Whole Larder Love, a cookbook/how-to guide that covers setting up a home garden, hunting and fishing, identifying and collecting edible food growing in the wild and preparing said food. Anderson is an Australian hunter-gatherer, fisherman and cookbook author who lives in an 1800s gold rush town. Plus, he has a beard, so in other words: LEGIT. He reads from and signs the book at City Lit Books at 2pm, skins the aforementioned rabbit at OSB (Longman & Eagle's off-site bar) at 4pm and is the guest of honor at a dinner at Nellcôte in the evening. (Tickets for dinner available through eventbrite.com.) City Lit Books, 2pm. OSB, 4pm.
5 things to do today: Friday, June 7

Chicago Dance Crash performs The Cotton Mouth Club.
AROUND TOWN
Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers: CLLAW XVI Histrionics trump forearm strength as Lumberjack Jill, Anne Hackaway, Bust Your Tooth Bluth and other women go Over the Top in the night's staged bouts. If you think the ladies' names are a hoot, wait until you see their costumes. The event is a benefit for Sideshow Theatre Company and Community Counseling Centers of Chicago. Logan Square Auditorium. 10:30pm. $10.
BOOKS
Adam Rapoport (Bon Appétit) at Parson's The editor in chief of Bon Appétit signs copies of the magazine's new grilling cookbook, The Grilling Book: The Definitive Guide, at Parson's Chicken & Fish. Daniel Gerzina, editor of Eater Chicago, moderates a conversation, and appetizers and cocktails from the new cookbook will be available for purchase. Parson's Chicken & Fish. 6:30pm.
Doughnut Day | Is it a doughnut?
There are a lot of wannabe doughnuts. And we're not just talking about the powdery five-packs of minidoughnuts you get at the gas station. No, there are poseurs throughout the pastry world—eclairs, bismarks, Burger King's new doughnut holes—just as there are also legitimate regional variations, such as the pączki (the Lenten batches at Bennison's should be your new annual tradition), berliner and bombolone.
This is not a scientific survey, merely my opinion. I'm not saying an eclair isn't delicious. It simply is not a doughnut.
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Your art-filled Thursday eve

Juan Pablo Beltran Hilarion and Carolina Ariza at the inaugural Brave New Art World.
If this erratic weather has been turning your feel-good summer vibes inside-out, like a cheap CVS umbrella in a gust of wind, we don't blame you. But as a wise redheaded orphan once told me, "The sun'll come out tomorrow." (And then her friends were like, "You're never fully dressed without a smile," and I was like, "Girls! ENOUGH.") Sun or no sun, there's lots of art to see and experience tonight—free food and drink to enjoy, too—so walk, don't run (cause you'll miss stuff) to the following:
Pop-Up Art Loop: First Thursdays Gallery Walk | Block 37 and Loop galleries
Pop-Up Art Loop—the Chicago Loop Alliance's initiative to fill empty storefronts downtown with eye-popping art—unveils its new 17,000-square-foot space at Block 37. It features the Chicago Design Museum's 2013 exhibition "Work at Play." Stop by for food, beverages, and works by Marian Bantjes, John Massey, Michael C. Place and Wolfgang Weingart. Then take a free, self-guided tour to any of the other walk-in and walk-by galleries in the area. Go to popupartloop.com for a map. Free, 5–8pm.
Brave New Art World | River North gallery district
The second installment of Brave New Art World—a radical new initiative to unify disparate art communities by providing a once-a-month forum in River North—returns for another evening of critical talks, performance art, food and drink. Pick up a map at Franklin and Superior or in any of the participating galleries (listed at bravenewartworld.com). It's free. It's inclusive. It's attempting to do something hospitable and transparent and to elevate art-focused discourse without alienating people. If this is the future, we are stoked. Free, 5–8pm.
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5 movies opening in Chicago
The new films reviewed in this week's Film section include The East, which will probably give Greenpeace canvassers ("Got a minute for the environment, maaan?") some naughty ideas. As Time Out critic Joshua Rothkopf writes, the new indie-thriller "turns out to be about eco-activists: not the Phish-loving, hacky-sacking kind but a scarier species that would turn the sin of pollution on an oil exec’s house, or lace drug manufacturers’ champagne with their own faulty pharmaceuticals." On the bright side, once all the clipboard-toting slackers become environment-defending terrorists, they'll stop bothering us while we're on lunch.
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Doughnut Day | Give Chicago a freaking Tim Hortons already, Tim Hortons
[Ed. note: Tomorrow is National Doughnut Day, and we at Time Out are starting preparations. First, by eating lots of fruits and vegetables today to counterbalance the sugar diabetes we will surely induce with tomorrow's epic doughnut eating and, second, by revving you up for the big day with several posts devoted to fried dough. Here's the first, and be sure to come back tomorrow for our Doughnut Day blowout coverage.]
I watch a lot of hockey. I love the speed, the mullets, the K- and I-stuffed Finnish names, the emergency dentistry, the nicknames (Soupy, Sharpie, Tazer, Kaner…), the Hawks, Jim Cornelison and the overall Canadianness of the sport. Canada is a wonderful country, and in my travels to Toronto, Montreal and Victoria, I've sought out brands of junk like Pizza Pizza, Molson, Roots, Boston Pizza and Tim Hortons because I see so many ads during Canucks, Leafs, Senators, Oilers, Flames and Canadiens games. You see these ads painted along the boards of the rink. It gives you something to want to buy as you watch a guy get his ribs crushed against the glass.
Tim Hortons is a doughnut and coffee shop, named after a hockey player. The maple dip doughnuts are amazing, obviously. The dougnut holes are called Timbits. That's adorable. It's not just a symptom of grass-is-greener syndrome to say they blow away Dunkin' Donuts.
Best weekend events in Chicago

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FRIDAY
Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers: CLLAW XVI Histrionics trump forearm strength as Lumberjack Jill, Anne Hackaway, Bust Your Tooth Bluth and other women go Over the Top in the night's staged bouts. If you think the ladies' names are a hoot, wait until you see their costumes. The event is a benefit for Sideshow Theatre Company and Community Counseling Centers of Chicago. Logan Square Auditorium. 10:30pm. $10.
NGUZUNGUZU + Chrissy Murderbot + Teen Witch + Soleman L.A. duo NGUZUNGUZU turns digital equipment into tribal instruments, blending modern R&B, island rhythms and general eeriness. The two manned M.I.A.'s Vicki Leekx mixtape and are not afraid to drop a little Brandy into global bass explosions. Their latest for Hippos in Tanks, Warm Pulse, is slow down the pace and mean mugs, but the low end is still unfathomable. Local footwork guru Chrissy Murderbot gets busy beforehand. Primary. 10pm. $10–$12.
Big Bowl opens at O'Hare Terminal 5

"Waiting for a flight could start to look a lot more like date night."
That quotation (from Xavier Rabell, "CEO of Areas USA, a leading provider of food and beverage, news and gifts and specialty retailers in more than 70 airports worldwide") in this morning's press release from O'Hare Airport is, on the one hand, hilarious. On the other hand, Tortas Frontera (which opened its third location in Terminal 5) has taught us that it is indeed possible.
Today, O'Hare announced the opening of Vosges and Big Bowl (Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises' first airport restaurant) in Terminal 5. These debuts are the beginning of a "transformation by Westfield" that "will bring 15 new dining and retail brands" to the terminal.
5 things to do today: Thursday, June 6

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ART & DESIGN
"Kate Levant: Inhuman Indifference" Levant, whose work appeared in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, experiments with traditionally feminine objects such as hosiery and earrings. In the gallery's "on the wall" storefront-window project space, Sanford Biggers's site-specific installation Argo engages the Underground Railroad's use of quilts. moniquemeloche. 6pm.
BOOKS
Yet Do I Marvel: Black Iconic Poets of the Twentieth Century For the Chicago segment of the Poetry Society of America's 2013 national series, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Rosellen Brown, Kwame Dawes, Haki Madhubuti, Dipika Mukherjee and Ed Roberson discuss major twentieth-century figures, including Kamau Brathwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton and June Jordan. The Poetry Foundation. 7pm.

















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