Chicagoland
Friday, November 6, 2009
Chicagoland, Visual Art Morning Art: Hunt Rettig
Posted by Julia Thiel on Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Chicagoland, Visual Art Morning Art: SOFA Chicago
Posted by Julia Thiel on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Chicagoland, Media One Story Up At New Address
Posted by Whet Moser on Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Megan Cottrell's outstanding blog One Story Up is moving from Chicago Now to True/Slant. Update your bookmarks accordingly: http://trueslant.com/megancottrell/. And while you're there, do check out Not From Here by Nathan Deuel, a gifted writer and an old college classmate of mine.
Chicagoland, Politics Mark Kirk Fears Dick Armey
Posted by Whet Moser on Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:30 PM
After noting that Palin will be in Chicago later this month to appear on "Oprah", Kirk writes that "the Chicago media will focus on one key issue: Does Gov[ernor] Palin oppose Congressman Mark Kirk's bid to take the Obama Senate seat for the Republicans?"
Chicagoland, Politics About Last Night
Posted by Whet Moser on Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:13 AM
There were some elections, which you may have read about.
1. As a Virginian, I'm sorely disappointed by the substantial victory of knee-jerk social conservative Bob McDonnell who, as of 2003, either had not violated my home state's rather inclusive "crimes against nature" law (about which the only positive thing that can be said is that it does not technically discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or relationship status) or could not recall if he had. Which is - come on - kind of weird.
Fortunately, he did come around somewhat late in life on the issue of whether or not women should work. Dare to dream: maybe he'll even legalize oral sex.
Chicagoland, Visual Art Morning Art: Kass Copeland and Mark Mlodoch
Posted by Julia Thiel on Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Bicycling, Chicagoland Bicycle High Beams
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:07 PM
While we're on the subject of bike safety, thought I'd pass on this DIY bike high-low beams rig, via the must-read Lifehacker. I'm still waiting on the bicycle lane laser light.
Bicycling, Chicagoland, Visual Art, Performing Arts Momentum Mori
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Forgive me if I'm late to the game on this, but longtime Reader contributor Jim Newberry has a remarkable picture of Momentum Mori, which is sort of a living, street-theater ghost bike project.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Chicagoland, Visual Art, Performing Arts Redmoon at the White House
Posted by Whet Moser on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Classy move on the White House's part to make Redmoon part of the Halloween festivities; Redmoon's got a neat photo gallery of their prep work on their Facebook page.
Chicagoland, Media I Will Punch Journalists at Freelance Rates
Posted by Whet Moser on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM
The Washington City Paper has the definitive account of the instantly fabled fisticuffs at the Washington Post's style section, which is a shame insofar as neither George Will nor Fred Hiatt got punched.
