Date archive for May, 2009

  • Can You Blog in Exactly 72 Words?

    5/29/09 • (0)

    Seventy-two words seems a random and abrupt limit to apply to a blog post. Maybe not to Ruibo Qian, the Uptown blogger known as King Princess, and Hugh Adam, blogging as Simian Sam.

  • Oinklings from My First Week Writing Chicagosphere

    5/29/09 • (3)

    ‘Most notable of the pre-existing non-Trib blogs that have so far been added are CTA Tattler and Mike Doyle, of Chicago Carless, who is heading up Chicagosphere, a look at the Chicago blog scene.’–Chicagoist

  • In Focus: Seeking Chicago Video Bloggers

    5/28/09 • (0)

    The greatest thing to happen to my personal blog this year was the inspiration I got from my hit-and-run ex to purchase a Flip Mino camcorder. The sub-$200, super-sub-compact wonder fits in my pocket with room to spare for my iPhone and takes an hour of digital video.

  • Mulch, Ado, A Snout, Nothing (from the Waist Down)

    5/28/09 • (6)

    Pastry Chef Chris would call to sniff at me later in the day, in between bouts of coughing. My old beau’s new beau spent the weekend in the hospital with a high fever. The test results arrived back yesterday afternoon. ‘Yep,’ Chris said. ‘He’s got swine flu.’

  • Uptown Update: Why Mum’s Not the Word on Wilson Yard

    5/27/09 • (2)

    How the modest Uptown Update blog made big trouble for the North Side’s multi-million dollar Wilson Yard redevelopment project.

  • Modern Wing Windiness

    5/26/09 • (1)

    Over the Memorial Day break, I scoured the Chicagosphere for evidence that a balanced opinion of the the Art Institute of Chicago’s newly opened Modern Wing might exist somewhere on a website written in a ZIP Code beginning with 606. Fat chance.

  • Introducing My New ChicagoNow Byline: CHICAGOSPHERE!

    5/26/09 • (12)

    Two weeks ago, I alluded to a cool, new blogging project I was invited to be a part of. Today, that project is being unveiled as a public beta. As some of you already know, I’m talking about ChicagoNow, a new blogging community in development by the Chicago Tribune as a way to increase the masthead’s relevancy in an increasingly Web 2.0 world.

  • Marina City Online: Life Inside the Corncobs

    5/22/09 • (0)

    Steven Dahlman is a professional pain in the ass. It’s a skill that serves him well as the scribe of Marina City Online, the de facto community news site of downtown Chicago’s famous twin condo towers.

  • Misbehavin’ with Ms. Bea Haven

    5/21/09 • (0)

    J.T. Newman is an unlikely ecdysiast. Wednesday, over sidewalk cocktails at downtown Chicago’s Emerald Loop, she shared with me her journey from future office lackey to the blogosphere’s ‘dyke darling’ of burlesque, Ms. Bea Haven.

  • The Good Life in Downtown Chicago

    5/20/09 • (12)

    During their windy City visit last week, Seattle’s coolest couple, Kasey and John, waxed giddily about the fun and frolic of my downtown Chicago neighborhood. Their reaction stands in stark contrast to the one I normally get from native Chicagoans when I tell them I live downtown. It’s almost like telling a New Yorker you never ride the subway. The response is always the same: no one’s stopping you from doing it, but why would you want the hassle?