Marina City
You knew it had to happen. After a year of growing discontent with the current notorious state of affairs at Marina City, late last month a group of Marina City resident-owners filed suit against the condominium association for the twin 60-story corncobs, alleging the current voting proxy system in
Marina City
At the July 18 status hearing and notice of motion for Marina City's most famous dentist, Gary S. Kimmel, the good doctor was granted a request to travel, but he and his attorney, Joseph Lopez, were reminded to mind the 'restrictions.' These were not specified, but it's probably safe to assume that
Life
If the Gay Games VII organizers hadn't refrained from taking a pig-blood stained bow after Saturday night's disastrous opening ceremony, I would have sworn I was back sitting in the last row of the ill-fated Carrie: The Musical, Broadway's most infamous flop. Bad choreography, poor staging, cheap co
Getting Around
Four weeks ago, CTA communications staff told me the agency would adopt a suggestion of mine to make it easier for riders to find weekend service diversion information. I celebrated that decision on this blog. Trouble is, a month later CTA hasn't bothered to actually make the change.
Life
You never know what you've got until it's gone. For example, the use of your right thumb. Last night, after a long day on a short fuse, I settled in for the evening, poured myself a glass of Vinho Verde, and pointed myself at the dishes for a fight. I lost. A 99-cent Ikea butter knife won.
Politics
Since 2001, many of the security tactics we've ended up with on our nation's transit systems in response to Homeland Security hype have been less than efficient. Now New York has implemented random bag searches at subway entrances. And how that stops terrorists from simply getting on at another stat
Food and Drink
There's no sweeter music to my ears than the woosh of 100 collapsing vendor tents, coming down today in Grant Park after the conclusion of another year's Taste of Chicago, the Second City's annual lakeside food extravaganza. Last week, I asked my native-Chicago friend, Rozella, if she wanted to go t
Marina City
Exactly when I decided to leave New York has always been one of the biggest mysteries of my life. To this day, I still can't identify the moment when I made or was set upon by the decision to leave behind Gotham and all of its angst and adopt the relentlessly friendly American Midwest as my home. Ho
Elsewhere
One of the things I miss the most about New York City is the palpable presence of a Portuguese community. If Chicago had just one Portuguese restaurant my life would be a lot easier. I certainly never expected to meet the editor of a prominent Portuguese newspaper at a Greektown reception.
Marina City
Some readers have wondered about the reason for these weekly flower posts. The short of the story is a condominium association at Marina City that appears to be of the opinion that it's doing residents a favor by allowing a volunteer floral terrorist-cum-arranger to plop awful, phoney flower arrange
Life
Bed, Bath & Beyond had just sent out another round of their endlessly arriving midnight blue 20-percent-off coupons, and now I needed one. But true to form, I had thrown mine out the moment it arrived in my mailbox. Then again, I realized, so had everybody else at Marina City.
Chicago
Today, my downtown Chicago architecture photo-essayist extraordinaire boyfriend (did you get all that?), Devyn, launched a retooled version of his popular photoblog, Looper. Go see!