Monday, August 16, 2010

Share the Wonder of Chicago Architecture - do you have what it takes to be a CAF docent?

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I could never be a Chicago Architecture Foundation docent .  You have to know what you're talking about. Thankfully, however, there ar...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

. . . when Burnham Wood come to Daffodil Hill - and went all orange and yellowey

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tree trunks that look like steamed crab claws - click images for large view This is the scene in Grant Park just west of Lake Shore Drive.  ...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Chicago Air and Water Show in the air, Götterdämmerung in the ear

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Click on images for larger view. What a trip -  watching fighter plans roar through the sky with Siegfried's Funeral Music , from today...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Planes on Point and Pretzel Trails - Chicago Air and Water Show 2010

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Procession with Bull, no extra charge

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click for larger view - highly recommended
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Clean Sweep on the Cheap at the Wrigley Building

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 click images for larger view As we've written about before , the old plaza between the Wrigley Building and in its annex had grown incr...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

I have a new camera

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click images for larger view The two of us - myself and the sales guy at Best Buy - stared at $1,600 worth of stuff sitting in a flimsy, blu...
Monday, August 09, 2010

When the Cranes return to Clark and North

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It's like the Chicago Children's Fountain couldn't catch a break.  Created in 1982 during the administration of Jane Byrne, it w...
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Sunday, August 08, 2010

Harboe at Carson's, Neutra discusses Neutra, Studio/Gang at Columbia College - SCB in Abu Dhabi, and much more: the August architectural calendar

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It's the 9th of the month - time for the August calendar! Actually, the first week was less front-loaded than usual, and a lot of Chic...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

Proms!

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Most of the time, I'm quite content being stupid. Occasionally, though, it grates.  Months ago, I found myself hungrily going over the s...
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Chicago Streetscene: Waiting for the Frontera to open

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In 1987, chef Rick Bayless took the risk of opening a new kind of Mexican restaurant, with an emphasis on authentic dishes and ingredients,...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

Update on Northerly Island today at 12:15, Bauhaus, Hitler and Chicago at noon

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As we continue on our long trek towards producing an August calendar, we thought we'd give you a heads up of today's events, which i...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Chicago Streetscene: Boredom

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Monday, August 02, 2010

Chicago Streetscene: Mummemschanz Peeping Toms

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(seriously, we're working on the August calendar now.)
Sunday, August 01, 2010

Transformers 3 guns may not be real, but they sure are noisy.

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Filming continues on Transformers3, as combatants struggle to secure Chicago's Wacker drive from adversaries to be added later, where e...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Chicago Streetscene: Blues in the Night

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Claremont Cottages - when the mass produced becomes a collectible

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Still surviving on the 1000 block of South Claremont Avenue is a series of cottages built in the 188o's as a new housing development by ...

Acetylated Wood on Thursday; Jens Jensen and the Spertus for August

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One last addition to the July calendar - on this Thursday, July 29th,  5:30 to 7:00 p.m.,  the Häfele Chicago Showroom, 154 W. Hubbard will ...