After days of agonizing over much hard work lost to a dead hard drive. After weeks of researching digital news media for an upcoming story. After months glued to my laptop for your reading pleasure. I took refuge last night in a friend’s home, where I can always turn for the simplest bohemian pleasures. Five … Read more
Elmer Gylleck was a Chicago architect who did a bumbling comedy-magic act built around a character he called Dr. Clutterhouse. Dr. Clutterhouse would come on stage clutching a briefcase and carrying an umbrella. The briefcase was possessed, full of odd spirits; ghosts would fly from it, and gunshots would ring out whenever Clutterhouse opened the … Read more
photo by McClatchey News Service It was, says Lisa Berg, a "humbling" note to write. The single sheet of paper hangs inside the restroom at her coffee shop, Blue Moon Coffee Cafe, and describes her plight. The place is nearly always full — in that there’s nowhere for walk-ins to sit — and people … Read more
Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) Game #48, Home Game #24: Boston 88, Minnesota 86 Season record: 10-38 1. Kevin Garnett, Over and Out The big man came, he smiled, he waved, hit his heart once or twice, and left. The applause from the fans was long and genuine, but not … Read more
Unbeknownst to most folks, there was a public preview of the Voltage ’08 fashions at last night’s 10,000 Arts Party. Mostly I spent the evening being a bugaboo to the models backstage. (Don’t they look irritated?) But I also managed to take these snapshots of the looks: My favorite dress of the night was … Read more
So it’s not just your imagination, it actually is true. Those zero-calorie sodas people are popping left and right and up and down, ordering with their cheeseburgers and large fries and drinking instead of coffee in the morning or wine at night, actually lead to (or, as they say in medical-speak, "are linked to") metabolic … Read more
FILMCalifornia Dreamin’ (Endless) As part of a Romanian themed movie series showcasing the new wave in said country, the Walker will screen the final film from late director Cristian Nemescu, called California Dreamin’ (Endless). It was completed in 2006, when the director and sound editor were involved in a tragically fatal car crash. Chronicling the … Read more
Its no secret that I am an afficionado of both hot rods and message boards. The two form a less than poltically correct union however. For example, a old favorite of mine the Honkey Ass Message Board or H.A.M.B has been an exceptionally well-crafted and written forum. Till some egits began posting their thoughts on … Read more
Last night in the bar-restaurant at the Bedlam Theatre, I couldn’t help feeling like I was in a play – to judge by the funky décor, maybe Lanford Wilson’s Hotl Baltimore, or something by Beckett. Every few minutes, somebody would trudge through the bar – a woman carrying an enormous potted plant, a man pacing … Read more
SPECIAL EVENTAll the World’s a Stage Join us tonight for what might be our best 10,000 Arts party yet (and believe me, that says a lot). The evening’s music and art extravaganza offers a flashy, live 2008 Voltage: Fashion Amplified preview, with performances both on- and off-stage. Meet the artists featured in the new issue … Read more