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Local Color: Romantic Tableau CTA-Style
Anyone who rides the CTA frequently has likely come across a few sordid tales. Meetings with Chicago’s strangers, drunks, hustlers and an assortment of other oddities can be found regularly on just about any line in the city year-round. Kevin O’Neil, the CTA Tattler, has been documenting these stories for more than five years and was […]
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Photographers love clicking pets, second only to their love of clicking children. The following tips will help you take perfect pictures of your pets. Standard lenses can give good pictures; however to make shooting pets easy one should use a longer telephoto lens of 80 to 200mm size. A telephoto lens is what you need […]
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In preparation for the Scrabble Shown later in the Month, Cinema Minima is laying it down with Word Wars (2004, 80 min), a documentary about the tiles and tribulations on the Scrabble tournment circuit. Word Wars follows four players in the nine months leading up to the 2002 National Scrabble Championship. As the camera narrows it’s focus on these four […]
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Steven Colin is a 27-year-old college student who, along with a group of friends, decided to stop for dinner at Uncommon Ground on Saturday. “I don’t usually consider factors like how green a place is when I go to eat,” he said. “I care mostly if it has good food or not.” But after dining […]
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Via Flickr: I passed this way a day after it happened. I envisioned this today (woke up thinking about it), on Earth Day 2011. The Flowers were there in the place where the woman died. I heard it on the news, she was pushed down the stairs–and fell–her head hitting concrete stairs. It was a […]
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A recent influx of drug expulsions prompted a school council meeting at Jones College Prep on April 12. “We’ve seen a fairly drastic increase in drug-related expulsions,” said Dr. Joseph Powers, principal at Jones. “More specifically, a huge upsurge within the last year.” Jones College Prep has seen enough of a drastic increase in drug-related […]
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LET THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE BE HEARD! a full-scale reenactment of the Haymarket Affair to commemorate its 125th Anniversary, organized by Paul Durica, of Pocket Guide to Hell in partnership with The Illinois Labor History Society, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Drinking & Writing Theater, Fulton River District Association, and Version 11: The Community. On May 1st millions of people around […]
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