THE SOLUTION

test.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib2 import urlopen

BASE_URL = "http://www.chicagoreader.com"

def make_soup(url):
    html = urlopen(url).read()
    return BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")

def get_category_links(section_url):
    soup = make_soup(section_url)
    boccat = soup.find("dl", "boccat")
    category_links = [BASE_URL + dd.a["href"] for dd in boccat.findAll("dd")]
    return category_links

if __name__ == '__main__':
    food_n_drink = ("http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/"
                    "best-of-chicago-2011-food-drink/BestOf?oid=4106228")
    
    categories = get_category_links(food_n_drink)

    print get_category_links("http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/"
                    "best-of-chicago-2011-food-drink/BestOf?oid=4106228")