Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Music Post No Bills Norwegian reedist Frode Gjerstad returns to Chicago tonight
Posted by Peter Margasak on 08.31.11 at 02:52 PM
Media News Bites Tribune dropping tabloid edition
Posted by Michael Miner on 08.31.11 at 01:30 PM
This is the last week the Tribune will be sold on newsstands as a tabloid. An experiment begun in January 2009 — the assumption of this blogger being that the Tribune was testing the waters and eventually would go all in as a tab — ends Friday.
Media Chicago media owns the New Yorker caption contest
Posted by Sam Worley on 08.31.11 at 12:42 PM
- mecredis
Related: think it's hard getting a caption in the New Yorker? Try a cartoon.
Style Creatures of the Wind continues to turn heads
Posted by Heather Kenny on 08.31.11 at 10:37 AM
- creaturesofthewind.com
- A fall/winter 2011 look from Creatures of the Wind
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Politics Clout City News Foreclosure plan passes council committee—but where's the money for it?
Posted by Mark Bergen on 08.30.11 at 07:39 PM
The city took another small step in its attempt to tackle the ongoing foreclosure crisis today.
The City Council's housing committee signed off on the latest city plan to implement the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program, but not before aldermen voiced a few frustrations about the dwindling amount of federal funds coming the city's way—less than $16 million this year to deal with thousands of foreclosed properties.
Politics Clout City New City Council, just about the same as the old City Council
Posted by Mick Dumke on 08.30.11 at 06:43 PM
Anyone wanting a glimpse of how the Chicago City Council works should have taken in this morning’s meeting of its Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs, and Recreation—all two minutes of it.
Twenty-five items were on the meeting agenda, all of them involving permits, licenses, and fee waivers for events such as the Taste of North Lawndale Back to School Family Peace Fest, the Eckhart Park Run to Fun 5k, and the St. Jerome’s Croatian Fest.
Under current city law, each of these matters requires a separate ordinance that the City Council must pass before it goes into effect. Aldermen of the wards hosting the events typically introduce the legislation and their colleagues sign off.
Lit & Lectures Books Books I won't review, part two
Posted by Jerome Ludwig on 08.30.11 at 06:19 PM
"A brutal and refreshingly honest look at friendship . . . "
You Are Here Chicagoans Gary Bloze, owner, Illinois Pet Cemetery
Posted by Anne Ford on 08.30.11 at 05:21 PM
"Illinois Pet Cemetery is the oldest pet cemetery. It's a family-run business, started in 1926 by my grandfather. He got the idea during the first world war, when he saw one in France. He got killed in a car accident in 1930, two weeks before my father was born, while he was out selling a headstone. The steering wheel went through his chest. At the time of his death, he had a pet ambulance service and a pet newspaper, the Pet Lover's Review. He also sold pet insurance.
Bicycling You Are Here Broken Flotsam and Jetsam Cycling Nice parking job
Posted by Julia Thiel on 08.30.11 at 04:36 PM
Maybe he misinterpreted the news that Chicago recently launched on-street bike parking.
Lit & Lectures Books New puzzles from Reader crossword maven Ben Tausig
Posted by Sam Worley on 08.30.11 at 04:33 PM
