Archive for March 25th, 2009

Chicago Opera Vanguard Tries Crowdsourcing to Attract New Patrons

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Chicago Opera Vanguard Tries Crowdsourcing to Attract New Patrons

Image by ginja_ninja via Flickr Did you like V for Vendetta? Maybe its time for you to try opera. Chicago Opera Vanguardthinks that a punk opera during an economic recession can be financed in part by graffiti. Virtual graffiti, that is. Visiting www.chicagovanguard.org (COV) their “wall” let’s anyone become an opera patron – and... »

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Testing finds traces of lead on playgrounds

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Editor’s note: This story is a follow up to a series Matthew Hendrickson wrote on Chicago lead poisoning. Read Part One, Part two or Part Three. Story By Matthew Hendrickson March 25, 2009 – For a half-century, cars and trucks used leaded gasoline, spewing potentially toxic pollution into the air. Leaded gas was banned in the... »

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The URL the Chicagotribune.com forgot – metradelays

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
The URL the Chicagotribune.com forgot – metradelays

In their story about the Google employee who set up metra delay alerts on twitter, the chicagotribune.com only linked to its metra alerts. Here is the twitter address to follow for all metra delay alerts: http://twitter.com/metradelays »

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