This week I visit Côco Louco Brasil, the new Brazilian restaurant in the Central West End. If you dine at Côco Louco Brasil, beware the teapot. Your server may bring this to your table at the end of your meal, along with dainty white demitasses and a knowing smirk.The arrangement looks exactly like the tea service at the average Chinese restaurant, but that ain't tea inside the pot. It's cachaça, Brazil's national spirit, fermented and distilled sugarcane juice.You've likely encountered cacha
You know what you're going to get with a Gretchen Wilson set: no-frills, unpretentious, hard-twanging country-rock tunes - with emphasis on the rock. Her mid-afternoon set kicked off with the 2004 hit "Here For the Party." Sporting a black camisole, sparkly silver belt and jeans and big hoop earrings, the Pocahontas, Illinois, native grinned her way through the tune.
Wilson's songs about hard-working men and women - those who prefer beer and whiskey, and jeans and T-shirts, to fancier things -
