And we’re off! Creative Loafing Atlanta‘s Thomas Wheatley (whose AAN-award-winning cover story about alcoholism and sobriety is a must-read) is on the scene, and reports that Ben Eason’s opening $2.3 million bid is not facially incomprehensible.
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 48
Issue of Aug. 20 – 26, 2009
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After more than a century, you’d think they’d be used to it
Yesterday Rick Morrissey was all like CUBS NEED TO PANIC NOW. I dunno – I couldn’t help but be reminded of a Chris DeLuca column from last week, which I thought was a pretty compelling breakdown of what’s gone wrong for the Cubs this year – their tinkering in the wake of last year’s playoffs […]
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The Crying of Lot CLI
Today’s auction day! Read Michael Miner’s big news about our potential new ownership. I also learned a neat new phrase in this process, facially incomprehensible. I’m just going to listen to this all day and find a nice wall to stare at update if I hear anything:
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The Other Scary Vogue Editor
In a story about the upcoming movie The September Issue, a documentary about the making of Vogue‘s phonebooklike fall fashion preview in 2007 (its biggest issue ever, as it turned out), Sunday’s New York Times shines the spotlight on Grace Coddington, the magazine’s creative director.
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You Shoot: Those few who broke the surly bonds
Great street art find by z.duffy. From the paint I’m guessing Milwaukee/Grand/Halsted.
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Reader Bidder Would Bring Jim O’Shea Back to Chicago Media
LA Times editor who was fired for bucking budget cuts would be on the board if Atalaya wins the Creative Loafing chain in an auction today.
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A Free Online Jazz Fest Preview
Last year an Internet radio station called AccuJazz.com caused a bit of confusion with advertisements that seemed to indicate it would be offering live audio from the Chicago Jazz Festival. I wasn’t the only one fooled, but it turned out the site was merely playing music by a bunch of the artists scheduled to perform […]
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Bonding With Male Bonding
My friend Krystal has an uncanny ability to go to any city and find the coolest people and best artists living there. She could probably go to the blighted Rust Belt hole that I grew up near and find someone making post-shoegaze electro-noise or earth art or exquisitely crafted recycled-glass bongs or something. It’s just […]
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Why not squirrel melts?
Finally, a recipe for my heirloom-tomato-fed city squirrels: (via @derekerdman)
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The Privatized Option
“The half-dozen leading overhaul proposals circulating in Congress would require all citizens to have health insurance, which would guarantee insurers tens of millions of new customers — many of whom would get government subsidies to help pay the companies’ premiums. “‘It’s a bonanza,’ said Robert Laszewski, a health insurance executive for 20 years who now […]
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Exelon lobbies for green jobs money
Exelon Corporation isn’t just hoping to get the federal government’s money and help for projects like the innovative solar power facility it wants to build on Chicago’s south side. It’s also been spending lots of money to lobby for them.
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Today’s little food mystery
One of my longtime favorite local Flickr photographers, Katherine of Chicago, found a sign advertising Argentinian ice cream on Lawrence. Naturally, LTHForum has the story of The Penguin. Update: Mike Sula wrote about The Penguin in 2000.
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Smart vs. Stupid: The Eternal Usability Question
Having now used the LAZ-Boy meters a couple times, I found myself having exactly this reaction: “Here’s what the redesigned ‘user-friendly’ parking solution looks like: 1. Park your car. 2. Walk up to 1/2 block to a Pay Box. 3. Wait in line to use it. 4. Use coins or credit cards to purchase parking […]
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Lutherans, gays, and Gnostics
“The E.L.C.A. isn’t necessarily quite as surprising in the religious sense, but the message it’s sending is, yes, not only are more Americans from a religious perspective getting behind gay rights, but these folks are not just quote unquote coastal liberals.” The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has voted to allow the ordination of gays […]
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That’s a new one
“Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.” —Bernie Sanders, via Seven Days