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Grace Lee, who runs video promotions ops at Columbia Records and works with guys like Beyoncé and Juicy J, is a friend of my wife Tamar. If it isn’t clear, Grace is really damn cool. So we were having dinner one night at a Korean restaurant when she casually mentioned that she would be flying to Tokyo explicitly to eat at one of the Jiro Ono restaurants, the chef featured in the award winning documentary Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. It's what many think and few do. Grace is a doer.

This data comes from Fan Cost Experience, a user-generated database of ticket, food and beer costs that's really helpful in budgeting out your baseball season. Wait, you can get a small draft beer for $5.75 at Citifield? We might get to go see the Mets play this year, after all!

The Cochon 555 tour made its annual stop in Chicago on Sunday. Once again, the porky and boozy event took place at the lovely Four Seasons Hotel. As always, each chef used a different heritage breed of pig and prepared five different “bites.” Read on for an event recap and to find out who took home the honors.