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Last weekend, Molly and I had the pleasure of meeting up with Anton from funsherpa.com at Lincoln Park's own Savor the Flavor in order to discuss this blog, all the cool things funsherpa has to offer, and a new and exciting relationship between Lincoln Park Now and funsherpa.

These Sherpas look like they know where to find all the fun! Photo by flikr user ilkerender

Hi, Lincoln Park Now readers, and sorry for my recent post-hiatus. Any of our readers who are also DePaul students will know how crazy the last week has been with winter quarter classes starting, but enough excuses!

Searching the web recently for Lincoln Park topics of interest has only served to remind me that I need to put my New Years resolution exercise plan into motion likerightnow.

If you're in the same situation, let's not fight it anymore! Don't let the blizzard stop you from building a bangin' bod. I've found a great deal and an exciting class that will make getting fit in Lincoln Park a fun and thrifty possibility in 2010.

Let's blame it on the cold weather.

Earlier today, I was browsing the web looking for some interesting, Lincoln Park-centric news when I came across a posting on BizBash Chicago about two trendy spots to host a private pizza party in Lincoln Park.

I thought, Lincoln Park? Good. Private parties? Good. Steamy, hot, fresh, gooey, delicious pizza? Soooo good.

Don't you feel pizza-hungry just LOOKING at this one? Mmm. Photo by flikr user Navin75

As Chicago gasped at its first snow sighting of this season Thursday, Pawsh Puppies
of 2120 N. Halsted is feeling the chill a little more than the rest of us.  A defamation lawsuit just filed by Pawsh Puppies against the stream of protesters campaigning against their Northbrook and Lincoln Park stores over the last month is asking: 

 

Shut up, Save A Pet, INC., and pay up!!!

 

Fellow ChicagoNow legal blog Chicago Bar-Tender details the lawsuit accusing @PuppyMilProject, the not for profit Save-A-Pet, of defaming activism that could irreparably harm the business. Concern flurries throughout the filing that the holiday sales this season could suffer after online and on-the-street demonstrations of the activists "adopt-only" campaign.  

 

The suit claims that Pawsh has been indefinitely stalled in plans to expand the operation in two locations that would be leased by their Northbrook site's management company after video and other messaging tactics were used by Save-A-Pet to insist Pawsh Puppies is supplied by puppy mill breeders.

 

So how is Lincoln Park business doing?   Very pawsh, indeed, if you visit the company's Facebook page. 

 

 

Pawsh puppies, a boutique tea cup and toy breed pet shop with Lincoln Park and Northbrook locations is suing Save-A-Pet, Inc./@PuppyMilProject for defamation. Their Facebook status on 11/28/09, after the last protest on Halsted claims a day of record sales despite the protesters "evil efforts."

 

On Friday, Lincoln Park Now sought some answers from store manager, Alex Gershbeyn, who gladly outlined their case to Lincoln Park Now.   After weeks of steaming commentary tailing Pawsh's headlines on the web, questions have hovered around the company's lack of public disclosure naming their "caring, reputable breeders."  Testimony by animal welfare advocates and consumers is challenging what qualifies a breeder as a puppy mill. 

 

Is Pawsh Puppies in peril?  

 

"No, not at all," Gershbeyn said, at the beginning of a conversation he wasn't sure he should be having at the beginning of litigation.   But it didn't stop there. 

By now, most people have probably secured their Thanksgiving plans and are daydreaming about all the delicious food to come. What's not to love about Thanksgiving? It's a day devoted to lounging, eating, and reminiscing with relatives.

But there's another holiday on the horizon that celebrates a different kind of binging--Blackout Wednesday!

I recently learned that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is one of the biggest party nights of the year. I am not sure why this never occurred to me previously, since it makes a lot of sense. People are home (or soon to be headed home) for the holiday and won't have to work the next day. That means that they are free to party hard the whole night before Thanksgiving with very few consequences.

And what better way to nurse a hangover than with cranberry sauce and stuffing?

If you're looking to spend your Blackout Wednesday in Lincoln Park, then you've come to the right place! Lincoln Park Now contacted the 5 highest-rated Lincoln Park bars on Yelp! and  compiled a list of their Blackout Wednesday bar specials just for you!

Looks like Mr. Potato Head's had a few too many! Where will you choose to blackout in Lincoln Park? Photo by flikr user Kevin Briody.

Just as you are beginning to maybe appreciate the onslaught of holiday media, we've compiled some bulletins to help fill your calendar.   Lincoln Park is absolutely saturated with opportunity to kickstart the season's festivities.  Some free, some frugal, and let's face it 60614, some are priced for the city's fattest pocketbooks (and you tell us if its worth every penny).  Whatever your circumstances, we think this list might help excite your spirit at least a little. 

You know those teeny-tiny, adorable little puppies that are all the rage in Lincoln Park? Well, they've worked some Chicagoans into a rage of their own.

Today at about 1:30 p.m., Twitter user @Davie_St posted two tweets about a big protest he discovered outside of Pawsh Puppies at 2120 N. Halsted in Lincoln Park:

@Davie_St: Passed a lively, homegrown protest outside a Lincoln Park froo-froo doggies-for-sale boutique. Looked like fun!
@Davie_St: Sign: "Here $1500 buys one sick dog. At animal shelters, $1500 adopts 150 dogs." Ah, good point.

A group of protesters from the Puppy Mill Project picketed outside Pawsh Puppies in Lincoln Park for 3 hours today, according to Pawsh Puppies store manager Alex Gershbeyn. Photo by flikr user kellymcheese.