Urbanism
Architectural porn for the modernists among you, Devyn recently completed posting a five-part photo series on Chicago's venerable Inland Steel building, which we both toured during the recent Chicago Great Places and Spaces event.
Marina City
With great surprise did I see you last Wednesday as I crossed the State Street bridge towards my riverside tower home, bobbing in the murky water, belly up, tail splayed out behind you, triangular snout pointing forever forward, like a dead furry arrow.
Media
Last week I submitted a review of the Art Institute's Gene Siskel Film Center to the sage scribes of CenterStage Chicago. Today, the CenterStage Eds told me I was chosen Review of the Week, for being last week's most 'insider-tip-filled' review.
Life
Recently, a bit of year-old Carless content created an unexpected stir in, of all places, the Cleveland.com forums. Yes, I was as shocked to learn they have the Internet in Ohio as you were. Oh, those kooky suburbanites are at it, again.
Urbanism
Today, the New York Times reported on the hard time Mills Corp. is having getting its New Jersey Meadowlands development, appropriately given the fantasyland monicker, Xanadu, off the ground. Apparently, blown deadlines, cost overruns, shareholder lawsuits, and an SEC investigation surround the east
Marina City
You didn't think we at Marina City could let the month of May pass without having our regular, monthly apartment fire, did you? Last night East Tower unit 4527 burned, attracting yet another contingent of festively dressed firemen and their dozen jauntily illuminated emergency vehicles to the plaza
Marina City
As we enter Memorial Day weekend 2006, I leave you to ponder the above photo, or perhaps the below one which affords a better view of the object in question. Indeed, that's a trampoline. On a 38th-floor balcony. Three feet from the edge. Three-hundred and fifteen feet above the pavement.
Getting Around
Okay, that's helpful, thanks. A scientist working on the Chicago Tribune's dime was quoted today in the Trib regarding a Red Eye report on dirty CTA handrails and grab bars, saying, 'It would be hard for the CTA to do anything about this. It's best to keep your hands off these surfaces.'
Getting Around
It's a Friday evening outbound rush on the Brown Line. As the train leaves Merchandise Mart, a petite, 20-something, bottle-blonde DePaulite, balancing on a window seat with her impossibly pink stilettos barely reaching the floor, pulls out her cell phone, sucks her teeth, and dials...
Food and Drink
Dear Head Honcho of the Millennium Park Intelligentsia Coffee Bar: I love your coffee--but please sell it to me faster in the morning.
Backstory
I'm reading my way through Jack Kerouac, his Beat contemporaries, and other authors who had something to say about unexpected journeys through life. I'm trying to get a handle on mine. I'd love to figure out how I ended up a Chicagoan.
Urbanism
If you've ever wondered about the fading little Victorian rowhouse now since last year sandwiched between two high-rise condo buildings on Superior between LaSalle and Wells--as in 'how that hell did that manage to stay there?'--wonder no more. The Sun-Times has the story.