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“Chicago chefs have embraced [Alice Waters'] style—Italian influenced, French technique—particularly at Blackbird and North Pond. I wanted to see how those two spots compared to two Bay Area counterparts.”
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Narrated animation from the New England Journal of Medicine. Note that they’re not talking about internet social networks, but just human relationship networks.
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“We’re giving our ten free copies of Everything is Miscellaneous. The rules: If you want the book, come there and say a word or two about tagging; It doesn’t need to be a big deal. A few sentences with some examples would be fine.”
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“Mimicking the patterns of segregation that shaped Chicago, whites in the inner-ring suburbs with growing African American populations are fleeing these areas for towns and villages beyond Cook County.”
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“Google wants to extend its popular tools to the rapidly expanding mobile phone market. To do so, it may spend billions to build a new, open network it says will loosen the grip telecom operators have over how consumers use their cellphones.”
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“The award program was created this year to honor of the author and activist who died in April 2006 at 89. The RF’s relationship with Ms. Jacobs dates back to the 1950s.”
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“Now, in Chicago, I lived in the basement of the Whole Earth Store (SE corner, Dempster and Chicago, Evanston), spending the days reading all the poetry in the store and ordering more.”
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a service of City Newsstand/Chicago-Main Magazines
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3. A book is a lecture — a magazine is a community.
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“Book Worm Angels is Chicago’s only literacy program providing in-classroom lending libraries to public elementary schools where the majority of students read below grade level.”
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“My basic point is: narcotics are different enough from each other that any phrase involving the word “drug” is probably dangerously misleading: “drug abuse”, “war on drugs”, and so on. It’s the kind of thinking that leads to parents lying t
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“A correspondent has created a map of the USA and Canada where people can record their regional accent based on pronunciations of various vowel sounds” — solidly Northern, which is appropriate
