Street Surgery
August 22, 2008
I travelled up to the North-side of the city a while ago and came across an open wound in the street. The neighborhood around the Montrose Brown Line Station is a good blend of commercial storefronts surrounded by two and three-flats – typical Chicago residential buildings. There’s been a lot of change lately as the CTA works to upgrade all the Brown Line stops to include elevators. Read the rest of this entry »
Visualizing a Textual Inventory
August 17, 2008
Street Food
August 11, 2008
I’ve been hearing the sounds of a street festival drifting up to my apartment on the 11th floor – through the thermopane windows – for the past couple of nights; so yesterday evening Bo and I went down to see what was going on at street level. We found Mexico in Chicago, right on Allport St, outside St. Procopius Catholic church who were having a block party to benefit their school. Read the rest of this entry »
Wheels: are four really better than two?
August 6, 2008
Thinking a lot about wheels lately. Yesterday I needed to go to Hyde Park and when I looked at the Public Transit directions on Google Maps, the estimated time to take two buses was 1.25 hours. I thought about taking the Pink Line to the Green Line, so at least I could go through the Rem Koolhaus tunnel at IIT…so I rode my two wheels over to the station at 18th Street. It was steamy outside. Read the rest of this entry »
Blues Sister
August 5, 2008
Rolling, rolling, rolling; the theme from Rawhide keeps going through my head…maybe because I just watched the Blues Brothers in Grant Park. What an experience to see John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd as Jake and Ellwood Blues running around the same city we were sitting in. Read the rest of this entry »
Movie (K)night
August 3, 2008
Copyright Warner Bros. Pictures
Saw the Dark Knight last night. Gotham City is now unabashedly Chicago; and whereas during the last film, Christopher Nolan tried to make us believe the city location was New York…in this new version the site of our city is really celebrated. Read the rest of this entry »
