Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Death of Variety? The Supply-Chaining of the Magic of the Movies

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Nostalgia Alert!  If you insist on living in the present, turn back now .  (And it's not nostalgia: it's cultural history, dammit.)...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Chicago Streetscene: Nighttime in Venice and Vienna

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Outtakes from the Central Manufacturing District

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click images for larger view So I've just sent off the images for my presentation at this Thursday's Pecha Kucha at Charnley-Pe...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Chicago Streetscene: Light Rails

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Friday, July 13, 2012

Back to the Future: Wrigley Building Plaza closes for Rehab

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click images for larger view You can't get there from here.  At least from a while.  The passageway between Chicago's historic ...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Where Chicago Public Schools deign not tread: GEMS descend on Lakeshore East

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click images for larger view  Ten years ago, this is what the press release said: OWP&P has been retained by the Chicago Board o...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Horses, Streetcars and Hungry Birds - Mural Tuesday

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click images for larger view In West Town, murals along railroad viaducts near Chicago and Lessing. Artists include Sarah Lawshe, Augus...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Color Jam's Stockholder, Arquitectonica's Spear, Bey, Anthony Wood, Archi-Treasures' Jewels - its the July Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events

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So now it begins.  The holiday week is over and the July Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events is ramping up to warp speed. While so...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Today: Julie Burros discusses new Chicago Cultural Plan

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Seriously, there's really next to nothing going on this holiday week.  Even the monthly Landmarks Commission session is pushed back to n...
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Face Off

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click images for larger view Things change, as they say, but the new Ronald McDonald House on Grand, designed by Antunovich Associates ...

Some Flags we Have Known: Happy Independence Day!

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Monday, July 02, 2012

I Am Curious, Morbid (but only through Sunday) - an unnerving show finds the perfect architectural setting

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O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And...